Bringing a massive casino to Chicago’s struggling neighborhoods and legalizing marijuana across Illinois is the price to pay for stabilizing the fiscal basket case that the state has become, rookie Governor J.B. Pritzker said June 5.
“We’re putting our fiscal house in order,” Pritzker said June 5 in an interview with Bloomberg News. “Nothing’s going to be fixed overnight, but we’ve made significant progress. And honestly, I really believe that we have turned this ship in the right direction. Illinois is back.”
Pritzker rejected the suggestion that his agenda was opening the door to a new era of crime and ...
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