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Rebuild Illinois has earmarked money for a river port in Cairo, extending a passenger rail line near Belleville, and helping developer Elzie Higginbottom erect an apartment building and hotel in Chicago’s Illinois Medical District.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, December 16 - Ahead of being sworn in to serve the state of Illinois for a second term, Governor JB Pritzker announced the following staff
The governor also will retain all of his deputy governors, including Christian Mitchell, Sol Flores, Martin Torres and Andy Manar — and his chief of staff, Anne Caprara.
Many local governments will have the opportunity to increase their property tax levies by 5% for the first time since Illinois instituted a tax cap that limited levy growth more than 30 years ago. But whether they will or should is another question.
The governor’s promises to divest his vast portfolio of state contractors has not extended to his so-called blind trust, which has the governor’s money in at least a dozen companies with billions in state business