Despite ruling from JCAR, Gov. Pritzker wants to see what happens in the courts

Posted on February 16, 2022
Gov. Pritzker. (Photo courtesy: Dave Dahl/WJBC)

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – It will take more than a bi-partisan, bi-cameral roadblock to get Gov Pritzker off his mask message. 

The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules swatted down the department of public health’s attempt to extend the mandate, but Pritzker presses on.

“I trust parents, and what parents and doctors are saying is they want kids and teachers and the community safe. That’s what I have been following all along,” Pritzker said at an education-related stop at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield Wednesday. “A majority of parents in the state of Illinois and across the country believe that we need to keep a mask requirement in schools until it becomes safer.”

The governor and those who agree with him want to see what happens in the courts, though he’s not exactly winning there, either.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].

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