SPRINGFIELD - Illinois has a new governor. J.B. Pritzker took the oath Monday at the downtown Springfield convention center.
The billionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel chain defeated first-term Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner in November.
Pritzker has pledged to revise the state income tax structure to make wealthy taxpayers pay a greater share. He will likely move quickly in the just-begun session of the General Assembly to legalize the recreational use of marijuana and to put together a long-desired capital construction plan to fix roads, bridges and schools.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the history of Illinois is "a story of leaps forward and occasional stumbles back" but that change depends on "what we can do together."
