PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island’s governor has traveled to Chicago to attend a political fundraiser.
The office of Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo said she traveled to Chicago on Tuesday morning and planned to return to Rhode Island in the evening.
Raimondo’s office hasn’t said who is hosting the fundraiser. It says any travel costs to the state for the governor and her security detail will be reimbursed.
Raimondo has said she plans to run for a second term as governor in 2018.
It’s not the first time Raimondo has gone to Chicago for a fundraiser. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former Democratic congressman who was also a White House chief of staff for President Barack Obama, co-hosted a 2013 fundraiser for Raimondo when she was a state treasurer considering a run for governor.
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