Some more background information about the IPI [Illinois Policy Institute] is provided by the Center for Media and Democracy. The center reports the IPI has received over half a million dollars in donations from Bruce Rauner.
When Rauner fired his chief of staff in 2017, he replaced him with the IPI President and COO Kristina Rasmussen. The center also reports IPI has ties to the right wing Koch Brothers and also to the conservative Bradley Foundation.