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In 2018, McCann ran for governor and received around 4% of the vote, but there are only two sentences in the article, and they say only that he decided to run, and that he got 4% of the vote. It appears that his campaign did receive substantial news coverage; below is an assortment of articles which should be quite useful if anyone is inclined to expand that portion of the article:

• https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/sam-mccann-illinois-governor-candidates/154011/
• https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/10/1/18467386/conservative-party-nominee-for-illinois-governor-sam-mccann
• https://www.nprillinois.org/post/conversation-sam-mccann-conservative-party-nominee-illinois-gov#stream/0
• https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-sam-mccann-illinois-governor-challenge-20180702-story.html (this one’s concealed behind a paywall)
• https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met-sam-mccann-illinois-governor-petitions-20180625-story.html (so is this one)
• https://apnews.com/article/077ff34bd8524bc4b5af93c42b4e0851
• https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/19/illinois-governor-race-new-candidate-537367

— Historical-idealist ( talk) 04:36, 30 January 2021 (UTC) reply