J.B. Pritzker: “Every Illinoisan deserves dignity, privacy, and the freedom to live without fear of surveillance or discrimination.”

Please let children be children for one holiday, free from intimidation and fear.

It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Peaceful protesters have been hit with tear gas and shot with rubber bullets; journalists simply reporting the facts on the ground have been targeted and arrested; U.S. citizens, including children, have been traumatized and detained.

History will judge us by where we choose to stand right now, today. Future generations will ask: ‘What did we do when fellow human beings faced persecution? When our rights were being abridged? When our Constitution was under attack?’