Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker
Recent News About Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker
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Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton Makes History as the First Black Woman to Chair the National Lieutenant Governors Association
Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton Makes History as the First Black Woman to Chair the National Lieutenant Governors Association. -
Governor Pritzker Hails Tremendous Fiscal Progress as Illinois Enters FY23
Governor Pritzker Hails Tremendous Fiscal Progress as Illinois Enters FY23. -
Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation Bolstering Access to Healthy Food in Schools
Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation Bolstering Access to Healthy Food in Schools. -
Gov. Pritzker Announces Eleven Appointments to Boards and Commissions
Gov. Pritzker Announces Eleven Appointments to Boards and Commissions. -
Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation to Fight Food Insecurity and Increase Availability of Healthy Options
Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation to Fight Food Insecurity and Increase Availability of Healthy Options. -
Gov. Pritzker signs Medicaid omnibus legislation that increases access and equity in Illinois' health care system
Gov. Pritzker signs Medicaid omnibus legislation that increases access and equity in Illinois' health care system. -
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action as of May 27, 2022
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action as of May 27, 2022. -
Judge: Illinois prejudgment lawsuit interest law unconstitutional
A Cook County judge said the law supported by Democratic state lawmakers and Gov. JB Pritzker illegally interferes with jury rights and authority, while improperly penalizing defendants, and gifting personal injury plaintiffs with special benefits not given to anyone else in Illinois -
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action. -
Lawsuit: Illinois illegally counts mail-in votes for federal office up to 2 weeks after Election Day
Three Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Michael Bost, have sued the state of Illinois, arguing federal law sets the date of Election Day, and Illinois' vote-by-mail illegally extends Election Day by 14 days -
Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation Expanding Protections for Survivors of Sexual Violence Serving in the Military
Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislation Expanding Protections for Survivors of Sexual Violence Serving in the Military. -
Appeals court: Pritzker 2020 biz closure orders, alone, not enough to allow biz owners to sue for illegal takings
The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected yet another challenge to Pritzker's long-running use of emergency executive powers amid the Covid pandemic, saying plaintiffs didn't provide enough to back their sprawling claims that Pritzker trampled their rights -
'Legal 3-and-out with a punt:' Judge ends FoxFire suit vs Pritzker restaurant orders; Lawyer worries about precedent
An attorney for Geneva restaurant FoxFire says the case law set in challenges vs Gov. JB Pritzker's use of emergency power sets bad precedent for future, allowing governors to get away with issuing constitutionally 'questionable' orders -
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action on May 6, 2022
Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action on May 6, 2022. -
Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislative Package Addressing Nationwide Teacher Shortage
Gov. Pritzker Signs Legislative Package Addressing Nationwide Teacher Shortage. -
Gov. Pritzker Announces Fourteen Appointments to Boards and Commissions, Public Administrators and Public Guardians
Gov. Pritzker Announces Fourteen Appointments to Boards and Commissions, Public Administrators and Public Guardians. -
Lawsuit: 'Cartel' of politically connected, wealthy Chicago families, including Pritzkers, dominate IL marijuana market
True Social Equity in Cannabis accuses the Pritzker, Wrigley and Kovler families of using political connections and influence to monopolize the state's regulated marijuana dispensary markets -
Reform watchdog: Fed court can look into state's hiring of unqualified COVID lab techs, contrary to Pritzker's claim
A state hiring watchdog is contending he has not conceded, as "misconstrued" by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, that two dozen allegedly unqualified temporary lab techs hired to help with Covid-19 tests, are outside the watchdog's federal mandate because they were hired off the street rather than promoted from within government. -
DeVore lawsuit: Pritzker, IL Dept of Corrections COVID vax or test mandate illegally tramples workers' rights
The lawsuit argues neither state law or any union-related negotiation or arbitration should allow Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections to ignore due process rights afforded to IDOC workers under the state's public health laws -
CPS can't force teachers to get COVID vax, get tested, or get fired, Springfield judge says
Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow says Chicago Public Schools lacks authority under state law to enforce its so-called vax-or-test mandate, and also can't rely on its contract with the Chicago Teachers Union to sidestep the law