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Chelsea board have one question to answer after Ken Griffin meeting as takeover deadline looms

The lack of clarity over the bidding process for Chelsea is concerning fans, particularly as The Ricketts make the most noise

Football London

Chicago area gets a greater share in Forbes’ billionaire ranking

Ken Griffin is still No. 1 in the local standings, while insurance investor Patrick Ryan moves to No. 2, and new names join the list.

Chicago Sun-Times

Todd Boehly's partner Hansjorg Wyss breaks silence on Chelsea takeover amid Ricketts progress

Chelsea News: The Swiss billionaire has updated the foreign media on what is happening with his and Boehly's bid that was initially names as the frontrunner

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Next Chelsea owner: What Ken Griffin has done in Ricketts takeover bid amid Gary Neville advice

Chelsea News: The man funding the majority of The Ricketts' bid is set to make his intentions known in person, with more Chelsea takeover talks expected this week ahead of the end of April deadline

Football London

Liverpool and FSG well placed to see off £2bn challenge of Chelsea

Chelsea are to come under US ownership, but Liverpool and FSG have the experience and strategy

Liverpool Echo

Chelsea sale: Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert part of Ricketts family bid

The Rock Entertainment Group chairman has an estimated personal net worth of £24billion

The Independent UK

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert part of Ricketts family bid for Chelsea

The Rock Entertainment Group chairman has an estimated personal net worth of £24billion.

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Democrats may focus on GOP’s Bailey, but Irvin is more serious Pritzker challenger

Irvin can tap limitless funds from billionaire Ken Griffin, he’ll have history on his side as potentially the state’s first Black governor.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chelsea takeover: How the Ricketts Family have responded to possible protests ahead of Brentford

Chelsea News: The American family are continuing their pursuit to buy the club despite impending protests

Football London

Illinois Dems, GOP on opposite sides about helping state with American Rescue Plan money

Dems are boasting about using the money to pay down debt, while Republicans are complaining they didn’t get their way — when their party didn’t want the ARPA money to begin with.

Chicago Sun-Times

Boehly, Broughton, Ricketts, Pagliuca: The preferred bids explained as Chelsea takeover race heats up

With the race to buy Chelsea being narrowed down to a shortlist by US bank, Raine Group, the next owner of the European champions is becoming clearer.

Evening Standard

Darren Bailey and Jesse Sullivan win lottery for first and last spots on primary ballot

But does ballot position matter? Some experts say no. “It’s tradition. It’s part of the summer camp aspect of campaigning,” said political science professor Christopher Mooney. “But does it have an impact on average? No, it doesn’t. But again, in an individual case, who’s to say?”

Chicago Sun-Times

Republican Gary Rabine touts support of ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn

The endorsement comes less than two weeks after Michael Flynn appeared before the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during which the former national security adviser exercised his Fifth Amendment right.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s support for the rest of the so-called ‘Griffin Slate’ still a mystery

Griffin, who donated $20 million to Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin’s campaign for governor over a month ago, hasn’t given a dime to the other members of the slate. Most won’t say whether they have spoken with Griffin or anyone on his team about what financial support might be coming.

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Father of Chelsea bidders Joe Ricketts apologised for racist comments in leaked emails

The owners of Chicago Cubs - not including Joe Ricketts - have launched a bid to buy Chelsea FC by forming a consortium with billionaire hedge fund tycoon Ken Griffin

The Guardian - UK

Chicago Cubs owners and Ken Griffin join forces in bid to buy Chelsea

The owners of the Chicago Cubs, the Ricketts family, have said they will bid to buy Chelsea and have joined forces with Ken Griffin, a billionaire hedge fund tycoon

Chicago Sun-Times

Madigan comes off as common grifter in indictment

The venality of the former House speaker was one of the primary focuses of the Ken Griffin-backed slate of statewide Republican candidates that began its public rollout last week.

Chicago Sun-Times

Jesse Jackson should learn reality about Ukraine, not Putin’s propaganda

The Ukrainian people have survived foreign occupations, centuries of subjugation and oppression by the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation.

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Which policies does billionaire Ken Griffin think are ‘pro-criminal?’

Griffin says Chicago’s violence problem isn’t because of “legal” gun purchases, as if a gun’s provenance matters to its target. Instead, he blames Gov. J.B Pritzker.

Chicago Sun-Times

Billionaire Ken Griffin hits Pritzker hard on crime, but his firms have millions invested in gun and ammunition makers, records show

Griffin’s hedge fund and market-maker firm reported more than $86 million in investments and holdings in such companies as of December. A company spokesman says Griffin doesn’t choose Citadel’s stock holdings.

Chicago Sun-Times

Incumbents in electoral trouble include Pritzker, Lightfoot, Democratic analyst says

Billionaire Ken Griffin has pumped $20 million into the gubernatorial campaign of Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, who’s seeking the GOP nomination. And Lightfoot could face a challenge from Arne Duncan, the former U.S. education secretary.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ken Griffin donates $20 million to Richard Irvin GOP governor campaign

Irvin, the Aurora mayor, faces four rivals in the GOP primary for governor.

Chicago Sun-Times

Top GOP donors pony up for Richard Irvin in governor’s race — but Ken Griffin not yet among them

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin put his first round of cash to use with a television ad portraying himself as a law-and-order candidate who "shut down the riots" as mayor amid 2020 civil unrest in Aurora, claiming he "called in the guard" to quell looting — although in reality, that power…

Chicago Sun-Times

It’s obvious Richard Irvin is a Republican

Irvin may not make it through the primary, but if he does win, he has a shot at giving Pritzker a run for his money,

Chicago Tribune

Mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city announces GOP bid for governor with tough-on-crime message

CHICAGO — Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin formally announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor Monday, stressing his background as a former county prosecutor to focus on a tough-on-crime message the GOP is hoping will play well against Democrats this year.

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