Governor Pat Quinn and challenger Bruce Rauner continue to battle over what’s best for Illinois’ future. The top candidates have faced off in two televised debates.
The focus of Tuesday night’s debate was mostly African American voters, and the issues they’ll be thinking about in the polling booth next month.
And it’s obvious that both candidates on stage at the DuSable Museum realize the importance of tallying up those votes.
"My investments and my donations to the African American community have totaled 10s of millions of dollars," said Rauner.
"We’ve opened up the doors to many more contracts; I think it’s up to 1000 contracts, for African American owned businesses," said Quinn.
Both candidates also wasted no time trying to cut their opponent down to size.
"My opponent had 51 executives in his company - no African Americans, not one.," said Quinn.
"Pat Quinn is taking the African American vote for granted, he’s talking but not delivering results," said Rauner.
Questions from the panel of journalists zeroed in on crime, jobs, gun control, the minimum wage and education.