J.B. Pritzker

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker blasted former President Donald Trump on Sunday over the Republican’s decision to describe his perceived enemies as “vermin,” stressing that such language is the same dehumanizing rhetoric that was used in Nazi…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is taking his abortion-rights advocacy nationwide, introducing on Wednesday a political organization to fund similar efforts outside Illinois, a state that legalized abortion by statute…

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson began his first term of office Monday, asking Chicagoans to set aside deep differences, confront challenges together and build “a city that works for everyone.”Johnson, 47, whose victory was…

Toyota’s electric vehicle plan is taking shape, Tesla investors want an adult in the room,and General Motors just had to recall its self-driving taxis to make them better at recognizing San Francisco’s bendy buses. All that and more in…

Paul Vallas, one of two finalists in the race for Chicago mayor, has often been critical of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D).The Pritzker policies with which Vallas took issue included an election-year tax cut that Vallas saw as an effort to…

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation on Tuesday that bans military-style assault weapons at the state level, just months after a Chicago suburb experienced a mass shooting.Less than a week into his second term, the Democratic…

CHICAGO (AP) — The state’s top officials in the battle against COVID-19 on Wednesday reported that the vicious surge in the disease fueled by the omicron variant is slowing statewide and in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city.But even…