Gov. JB Pritzker delivered his seventh State of the State address on Wednesday, speaking to the Illinois General Assembly

HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – Illinois Governor JB Pritzker will give the annual State of the State address. It started around 12 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Education was a main talking point in Gov. JB Pritzker’s State of the State address Wednesday. While the speech covered many aspects of the governor’s wish list for the coming year, it also discussed educational proposals that could affect schools here in Central Illinois One item Pritzker mentioned was Evidence Based

Pritzker will have to address how the state plans to cover what was projected to be a budget deficit of more than $3 billion.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has given his annual State of the State address Wednesday. A man who ate the carnivore diet had cholesterol of 1,000 and developed yellow lumps on his hands, deposits of excess cholesterol under his skin. "I asked the medical staff to let me die."

Pritzker called for a roughly 3% spending increase to $55.2 billion in FY2026 that will be supported by a similar increase in state revenue to $55.5 billion.

Ill., warned against authoritarianism, saying “it took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic” and asked Illinoisans to “gather your justice and your humanity.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker unveiled his 2026 budget proposal at the annual State of the State budget address on Wednesday.