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JB Pritzker
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October 10, 2026
Affordable family fun remains a priority, and we delivered on that again this year in both Springfield and Du Quoin.
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by number of sources- This decision is a victory in the fight to end gun violence that helps keep our communities safe.2 sources2026cbsnews.com
- If Democrats don’t win, if they don’t win in this election, we may not have other elections, or certainly we’re going to have future elections, every single one of which will be rigged.2 sources2026theguardian.com
Donald Trump should never play politics with their homes, businesses, and infrastructure.
Our communities are still picking up the pieces from the destruction caused by severe weather this summer.
I think you’ve seen each time that I was on the ballot, whether it was in 2018 or 2022, that we’ve increased the number of Democrats in the House and the Senate, and I’m hopeful that we’ll be there this time as well.
What I’m not OK with is pushing it on kids where you’re teaching them something that has truly been proven untrue.
It’s like he’s literally trying to ignore all the things that we knew about him as a result of the run that he had in 2022 and pretend that he’s somebody different — like he isn’t somebody who’s been a sycophant, a bootlicker for Donald…
There’s so many things that we need to do in the state of Illinois.
We’ve made a lot of progress, but we are only halfway to home, so to speak.
I would like people to remember what I walked into when I took office, the challenges the state was facing, the structural deficit, the credit downgrades — 24 credit downgrades over the course of 15 years — and I turned all of that around.
But what I can tell you is that, over the course of the last eight years – and I think over the course of my life, really, but certainly as people have paid more attention over the last eight years – I’ve proven that I have, in fact, done…