The Latest Breaking News from JB Pritzker

Sixteen businesses wrote the governor, an electric vehicles cheerleader, urging him to be more aggressive about eliminating fossil fuels.

Other states have hired experienced consulting firms to coordinate grant requests, but environmentalists say our state has been slow to get going. Meanwhile, buckets of federal money are becoming available.

“It’s been an awful long time in coming,” said Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who held a ribbon cutting Wednesday morning to mark the accomplishment

CHICAGO — In what’s become an unwelcome tradition over the past two years, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been on the rise again in Illinois amid the holiday season.

The Democrat from Champaign was one of three key sponsors of an amendment to the SAFE-T Act, which cleared the Illinois General Assembly last week.

Doctors ask the governor to commit to targets for replacing diesel engine vehicles with electric models.

Jesse White makes his last public appearance as Secretary of State and former First Lady Michelle Obama visits Chicago on her book tour to talk with David Letterman.

Fifteen months after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, the state hasn’t begun its promised workforce development programs aimed at helping minority contractors and workers.

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who visited a new dispensary co-owned by African American men Wednesday, said he hopes the other social equity license holders can open and diversify the white-dominated industry in Illinois.

CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who made banning the sale of assault weapons a key component of his successful reelection campaign this fall, for the first time voiced support for the recently unveiled proposal by Illinois House Democrats that includes outlawing the sale of certain assault-style guns, barring most people…