Editorial: We endorse J.B. Pritzker for Illinois governor
by Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Oct 12, 2022
4 minutes
When he was elected governor of Illinois in 2018, J.B. Pritzker was blissfully unaware of the COVID-19 crisis that would dominate his first term. As anyone with a loved one in a retirement home knows, the state’s response was far from perfect, and history will judge that Illinois public schools were kept closed for too long, given the impact on learning.
But those issues were pervasive across the country and Pritzker worked hard in the heat of the crisis to keep Illinois humming, to clearly communicate his policy decisions and intentions, and to keep its residents safe.
This was an extraordinary test for a novice governor with
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