By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – The checks will be in the mail. Or in your direct deposit.

Gov. Pritzker, other executive branch officers, and lawmakers celebrated the rollout – over the next eight weeks or so – of tax rebates.

“Roughly six million taxpayers will get rebates: $50 for individual taxpayers who file an individual return and have an adjusted gross income of less than $200,000; if you filed a joint return, you get $100 in a rebate.

“Up to $300 for property tax rebate for those who claimed a credit on their return.”

State Rep. Will Davis (D-Homewood) sums it up more succinctly: “Cha-ching!”

On another topic, Pritzker reacted to a tee vee commercial in which a white woman screams during an attack by a Black criminal.

“The intent of the people who put it out – look at all the things that they are involved in – clearly has a racial tinge to it.”

The ad, airing during Sunday’s Bear game in Chicago, was paid for by the People Who Play by the Rules PAC on behalf of State Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia), Pritzker’s November opponent.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].