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   From: bksherman@latimes.com   
      
   Along with the daily news briefings by President Trump and the   
   White House coronavirus task force, daily updates from top   
   governors -- from Andrew Cuomo of New York to J.B. Pritzker of   
   Illinois -- have emerged as must-see events in this COVID-19   
   pandemic.   
      
   Pritzker, a first-term liberal Democrat, blasted Trump this past   
   March before the two got into a Twitter feud about the   
   administration's response.   
      
   Leading the Land of Lincoln, the 43rd governor of Illinois   
   compared Trump to a "carnival barker" before the two got on the   
   phone and the president promised the state of Illinois 250,000   
   masks and 300 ventilators.   
      
   Pritzker extended the state's stay-at-home order through the end   
   of April in keeping with Centers for Disease Control and   
   Prevention [CDC] recommendations, as well as keeping schools   
   closed. He also sent the National Guard to Stateville   
   Correctional Center after one inmate died from the coronavirus.   
      
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   The state has seen at least 6,980 confirmed cases and 146 deaths   
   from COVID-19.   
      
   He is the wealthiest governor in American history   
      
   Pritzker, named after his uncles Jay and Bob, "J.B.," had an   
   estimated personal net worth of $3.4 billion and more private   
   wealth than any other governor in U.S. history. He is the second-   
   wealthiest politician to ever hold office behind former New York   
   City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.   
      
   Prior to becoming governor, he was co-founder and managing   
   partner of the Pritzker Group in Chicago and is a member of the   
   Pritzker family, who largely owns the Hyatt hotel chain and has   
   been near the top of the Forbes "America's Richest Families"   
   list since it started in 1982.   
      
   He was first elected in 2018   
      
   Pritzker unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of   
   Representatives in Illinois' 9th congressional district in 1998,   
   spending half a million dollars from his own pockets. He   
   finished third among five candidates in the Democratic primary.   
      
   Then, in 2008, he served as Hillary Clinton's national co-   
   chairman for the campaign and helped bring the Clinton and Obama   
   campaigns together in Illinois.   
      
   Illinois voters elected him governor in 2018; he took office in   
   January 2019.   
      
   Blagojevich consulted him to replace Obama's seat   
      
   In 2017, the Chicago Tribune published an 11-minute FBI wiretap   
   between then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Pritzker from 2008,   
   showing the two discussing campaign contributions and a   
   potential appointment of Pritzker to a state office.   
      
   At the time, Pritzker said he had "not done anything wrong," but   
   he later apologized for a number of controversial and incendiary   
   comments made in a private conversation with Blagojevich as the   
   two discussed who would fill then-President Obama's U.S. Senate   
   seat in 2008.   
      
   He was recorded as saying that appointing then-Secretary of   
   State Jesse White would "cover you on the African-American   
   thing" and that he was the "least offensive" candidate.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-   
   coronavirus   
        
      
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