In Illinois, we trust women and the healthcare professionals protecting their freedoms!

Establishing the Birth Equity Resource Building Grant to provide community-based birth care ✅

Expanding the IL Repro Health Facilities Capital Grant in underserved areas ✅

Recognizing doulas, midwives, and lactation consultants as Medicaid healthcare providers ✅

It's Black Maternal Health Week, Illinois.

The maternal mortality rate for Black women is 3x the rate for white women. These are preventable deaths.

Through our Birth Equity Initiative, we’re empowering Illinoisans and expanding reproductive health justice across our state.

It's an honor to bestow the Order of Lincoln to those who share the same commitment to Illinois as our former President.

Our state’s a better place because of each of you: 
Evelyn B. Thomas
Lewis Collens
Hon. Rita Garman
Alison Krauss
Lester McKeever, Jr.
Raul Raymundo
Jim Thome

When I came into office, we had about $400 million in production expenditures. By 2022, we reached almost $700 million.

And our tax incentives? The indirect benefit for Illinoisans is nearly 7 to 1.

We're putting people to work and expanding our economy. chicagotribune.com/2024/04/04/col…

Ameya and the Economic Security Project are right - Illinois is flipping the script to help the nearly 3.3M Illinoisans living in food deserts.

Our Illinois Grocery Initiative reimagines the role government can play in the lives of Illinoisans by helping create public grocery stores.

𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐎𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒 𝟏𝟒𝟔

Please click the following link to view the full press release here: isp.illinois.gov/Media/Complete…

On Day of (No) Silence, Illinois is loud and proud in support of our LGBTQ+ students and community.

You are loved, you are celebrated, and you are welcome here in our state.

Great news for students in Illinois.

SIU Carbondale and Edwardsville will freeze undergrad tuition for 2024-2025 so students can get a high-quality education at a low cost.

Another step toward accessible, affordable, and attainable education for all. wandtv.com/news/siu-syste…

The Illinois Senate just passed a bill that reshapes early childhood for our youngest and their families.

SB 1 will make accessing services simpler, better, and fairer by creating the Dept. of Early Childhood.

Thank you to Kimberly A. Lightford for your leadership in ushering this bill.

Happy National Library Week, Illinois.

We’re ensuring our children can read as much as they want from different perspectives.

Censorship has no place in our libraries. It’s why we became the first state to ban book bans because we refuse to marginalize people, ideas, or facts.

We’re making sure our infrastructure is ready for anything.

Illinois will receive $8.6M to upgrade our sewer systems and protect homes from severe flooding.

All part of repairing the Eisenhower Expressway to meet the challenges of a growing population facing climate change.

Illinois has the highest average rate of charger utilization in the nation for EVs.

With our latest $25M investment for more EV charging infrastructure, we’re doubling the number of publicly available charging ports — putting us closer to reaching 100% clean energy by 2050.

This is huge news, Illinois. 

The U.S. EPA’s first-ever national rule targeting PFAS or “forever chemicals” will protect communities and our drinking water alongside the standards our Illinois EPA are proposing.
 
Every Illinoisan deserves access to safe, clean water. Period.

Illinois is building a workforce that is as talented as it is diverse.

Since we launched, the Illinois Works Pre-Apprenticeship Program has helped hundreds of Illinoisans learn new skills.

This latest expansion will help even more advance their careers. hpherald.com/evening_digest…

Lee Milner has spent his life using his exceptional eye to capture scenes that would later become iconic moments in Illinois’ storied history.

Proud to proclaim April 10th as Lee Milner Day in appreciation of his decades of service to the State of Illinois.

Congratulations to Komatsu’s mining truck for being named our 2024 Makers Madness Champion - earning the title of 'The Coolest Thing Made in Illinois!' #MakersMadnessIL

The votes are in for Illinois Manufacturers' Association (IMA)'s #MakersMadnessIL 2024: Komatsu Construction North America's mining truck is the 'Coolest Thing Made in #Illinois .' 👏

Manufactured in #PeoriaIL and shipped all over the world, the truck helps position Komatsu as a global leader in industrial and construction…

The spirit of innovation is strong in Illinois.

We’ve invented some amazing things from the zipper to the cast steel plow.

Today, I’m incredibly proud to announce Illinois Manufacturers' Association (IMA)’s 2024 Coolest Thing Made in Illinois, the Komatsu Mining Truck!

Gov. Pritzker gives remarks at Illinois Makers Madness Luncheon twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…