FILE – In this April 13, 2020, file photo, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, gives a daily update on the coronavirus outbreak in Illinois, in Chicago. (Tyler LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has spent countless hours plotting and planning strategy in the state’s race against the coronavirus pandemic.
Those who live in central and southern Illinois have noticed he’s done it almost exclusively from Chicago.
Chicago and Cook County account for 70% of Illinois’ more-than 25,000 infections. But some people — mostly Republicans — complain that Pritzker has neglected the rest of the state even as it shares in the economic pain and social disruption from measures to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Thursday marks Pritzker’s 40th daily televised update, and the 29th straight from his downtown Chicago office.
