Conservative businessman Richard Uihlein of Lake Forest has given $1 million to state Sen. Darren Bailey’s Republican campaign for governor,
Conservative businessman Richard Uihlein of Lake Forest has given $1 million to state Sen. Darren Bailey’s campaign for governor, Bailey announced Wednesday, marking the wealthy megadonor’s first financial contribution in the 2022 Republican race to unseat Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
State records show Uihlein and his wife, Elizabeth, have donated nearly $31.5 million to Republican candidates and causes since 1998. In 2018, he gave $2.5 million to former state Rep. Jeanne Ives of Wheaton, who nearly upset one-term GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner in the primary. Four years earlier, he gave more than $2.6 million to Rauner., Bailey, of Xenia, called Uihlein’s donation “a significant breakthrough” for his campaign.
A major donor to conservative Republicans at the federal level, the Uihleins have promoted a limited government, free-market ideology, though they moved Uline’s headquarters from Waukegan to Pleasant Prairie, Wis., just across the border, in 2010 in exchange for up to $18.6 million in state incentives from a Democratic governor.
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