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POLITICO Get the Illinois Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories Good Thursday morning, Illinois. POLITICO’s John Harris examines a phenomenon in other states (New York), certainly not here: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has spent much of his first term managing the Coro...

Provided March 2 would have been the late Wanda Bailey’s 64th birthday. Bailey’s sister, the late Patricia Frieson, would have been 62 on Nov. 27, had the retired nurse not succumbed on March 16, 2020, to the novel coronavirus, a disease declared a global pandemic five days earlier. Frieson, the sixth daughter in an African American family of nine siblings from Chicago’s Auburn-Gresham neighborhood, became the first person to die of COVID-19 in Illinois. The nation’s first known COVID death had occurred 5 1⁄ 2 weeks earlier, in California. Tragically, on Mar. 25, just nine days aft...

UpdatedThu, Dec 31, 2020 at 3:20 pm CT Replies(55) 2020 has been one for the history books. Here's a look back at what's happened in Illinois. (Lorraine Swanson/Patch) ILLINOIS — It's been a year for the history books, with so many unprecedented events — from a global pandemic, civil unrest across the country and a hotly contested presidential election to the legalization of recreational marijuana and a fast-tracked vaccine for the virus. As 2020 comes to a close, we're looking back at some of the stories that shaped Illinois this year. Subscribe Illinois, along with the rest of the world...

Just a bit. thank you so much. meanwhile, back here the palmetto state made history with that confederate flag coming down that had flown here for more than five decades ago was removed from state house grounds here. i am joined now by wanda bailey as we play back for viewers and listeners at home when the flag came down wanda bailey who worked with strom thurman, and he was the third longest serving senator in the usa, and also known for being america's biggest segregationist back in the 1960s. the grandmother here wanda bailey. as you saw this flag come down knowing what it meant for your gr...

African-americans. and up until today, there has been a sense of relief because of that. not just during the jim crow era of slavery, this has been lifelong. so now with the flag being taken down, thank you that it is a new day. it is absolutely a new day. >> wanda, you were there, auzs you mentioned, with the governor when she signed the bill. she used nine pens one for each victim in the massacre. what has the governor said? >> i haven't talked to her personally, but she stepped up and did a remarkable thing. you have common ground with the house of representatives and the senate. this was s...