Gov. Pritzker delivers second inaugural address

Posted on January 10, 2023
JB Pritzker is governor of Illinois for a second time. He was sworn in on Monday. (Twitter/Governor JB Pritzker)

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker ran down what mostly amounted to a “greatest hits” album of his first four years in office.

In his second inaugural address Monday afternoon at the Bank of Springfield Center in Springfield, the victories he declared included: “We legalized cannabis,” then added, to cheers, “Oh, I see all of you. Yeah. We protected reproductive freedom in our laws.”

He also took time to denounce hatred and mention his role in building the Holocaust Museum in Skokie, and he also described how covid shaped his first term, noting that there’s no “permanent playbook” for being governor.

And he said he is trying to learn from past governors, adding it’s a challenge to determine which governors to learn from. In fact, Pritzker is the first governor elected to a second term since Rod Blagojevich.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected]

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