State Sen. Darren Bailey, Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, is holding firm to his assertion that Chicago is a hellhole, a designation he first bestowed upon us during a May primary debate, when he called the city, to be precise, “a crime-ridden, corrupt, dysfunctional hellhole.”
Axios reporter Monica Eng pressed Bailey on the insult after he slung it two more times in an August speech at the state fair.
“Do you think most Chicagoans feel like they live in hell?” Eng asked.
