New Emphasis on Masks and Limits on Gatherings As Virus Cases...
August 7, 2020 -- Governor JB Pritzker announced that the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) will file emergency rules for...
Gov Pritzker Activates National Guard, Issues Disaster Proclamation to Quell Riots...
Springfield, IL – Governor JB Pritzker today signed a disaster proclamation for nine counties in Illinois to expedite the use of state...
In Covid-Shortened Legislative Session, $42.6 Billion Budget Glued Together
May 24, 2020 -- In perhaps the weirdest legislative session in the history of Illinois, the Governor holds his "End of Session"...
Gov Relaxes Restrictions in Phase 3 of his Reopening Plan, Withdraws...
State Capitol, May 20, 2020: With the Governor and legislature back in Springfield to work on passing a budget, and possibly a...
Gov Pritzker Delivers the FY 2021 Budget Address
February 19, 2020 -- Gov Pritzker delivered his second budget address in which he noted the bipartisan nature of his first year...
2020 State of the State Address Focuses on Past Achievements, Ethics...
Speaker Madigan, President Harmon, Leader Durkin, Leader Brady, Lieutenant Governor Stratton, my fellow constitutional officers, members of the General Assembly, distinguished guests...
Gov Pritzker and Lt Gov Stratton on their Justice, Equity and...
Chicago – Building on the success of their first-year legislative agenda, Governor JB Pritzker...
Comptroller Mendoza (D): We’re No Longer Going to Collect Red-Light Fines...
The Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza (D), says her office will no longer cooperate in collecting fines from those citizens who...
Beginning First Wave of Cannabis Expungements, Gov. Pritzker Grants 11,017 Pardons...
Over 700,000 Records to be Expunged Through Most Equity-Centric Cannabis Legalization in the Nation
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Gov Pritzker: On Fixing Illinois’ Economy, Budget, and Pensions
Chicago, October 31, 2019 - At the Futures Industry Association conference in Chicago, Gov Pritzker speaks on his taking office and...
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Historian Mark DePue: Preserving Illinois’ Oral History
From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: We talk with historian and fmr military officer, Mark DePue on his work of conducting indepth oral history...