JB Pritzker

His campaign website says he wrote abortion rights into state law to protect women's right to make their own health care decisions, and lists expanding the availability of abortion care, and founding Think Big America, a group working to expand abortion rights that supported successful ballot measures in seven states, among his accomplishments.^4,6,7

His campaign website says he stopped President Trump's attempt to send armed troops onto the streets of Chicago.⁴

His campaign website lists empowering judges to keep violent criminals off the streets by stopping them from buying their way out of jail among his accomplishments.⁸

1. Require bail or jail before trial for more charges
2. Keep current bail rules
3. End or reduce cash bail, with judges deciding release based on risk

His campaign website says he has worked to expand funding for first responders, and lists adding hundreds of troopers to the Illinois State Police, including the largest cadet class in state history, among his accomplishments.⁸

1. Increase police funding, for example to hire more officers
2. Keep funding near current levels
3. Shift some police funding to mental health, housing or other services

His campaign website lists expunging cannabis-related arrest records for 780,000 people, and directing hundreds of millions of dollars in cannabis revenue to communities harmed by violence, excessive incarceration and economic disinvestment, among his accomplishments.⁹

His campaign website lists eliminating the state sales tax on groceries among his accomplishments, along with supporting the sales tax exemption for agricultural equipment and keeping it in the state tax code.^10,11

1. Lower sales tax rates or stop taxing necessities such as groceries
2. Keep current sales taxes
3. Raise sales taxes or apply them to more goods and services, to replace other taxes or fund state programs

His campaign website lists cutting property taxes for military veterans, and consolidating local police and fire pension plans to save taxpayers money, among his accomplishments.¹⁰

His campaign website lists enacting eight balanced budgets, paying off a nearly $17 billion backlog of unpaid bills and raising the state's rainy day fund to a record $2.54 billion among his accomplishments.¹²

His campaign website lists raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour among his accomplishments, and his official biography says he raised it to a living wage.^3,10

His campaign website lists lowering the cost of child care for up to 80% of Illinois families, and making what it calls the largest investment ever in early childhood education, among his accomplishments.^10,13

His campaign website lists expanding health care and marriage equality protections for LGBTQ+ people among his accomplishments.⁹

His campaign website lists investing in K-12 schools and quadrupling the minimum salary for teachers among his accomplishments.¹³

His official biography lists among the results of his tenure that community college tuition is now free for working-class families, and his campaign website lists nearly doubling MAP grants and increasing AIM High scholarships to make college more affordable among his accomplishments.^3,13

His campaign website lists enacting what it calls the first ban on book bans in the nation among his accomplishments.^3,14

1. Statewide rules that require removing books with sexually explicit content
2. Local review of each challenged book by the school or district
3. State limits on removals, such as keeping challenged books available while they're reviewed

His campaign website lists banning assault weapons, ghost guns, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines among his accomplishments.^3,8

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign website lists enacting what it calls the strongest AI law in the nation, which requires developers to disclose risks, and setting up an Illinois AI Cabinet to put guardrails on the industry, among his accomplishments.⁸

1. Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
2. Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
3. Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI

His campaign website lists launching Connect Illinois to bring broadband internet access to the whole state, including rural Illinois, among his accomplishments.^15,16

His campaign website lists enacting climate measures that put Illinois on the path to 100% clean energy by 2050 among his accomplishments, and his official biography says his clean energy expansion doubled the state's renewable energy production.^3,15