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“You can’t take anything that he says seriously,” said Pritzker, to reporters in Oak Park Tuesday.

Illinois Republicans say governor’s rhetoric is sowing more division.

The Chicago burger giant said the investment was its largest to date in support of regenerative agriculture in the U.S.

City’s top Internet officer uses social media to criticize conservatives’ hero.

A small crowd attended the festivities outside the modest brick house in the village of Dolton, where the former Robert Prevost grew up after he was born in 1955 in Chicago.

“The fact that the federal government is sending troops as we start these celebrations is an insult,” Illinois state Sen. Karina Villa, a Democrat, said at a news conference. “It is a fear tactic. It’s unforgivable.”

The governors of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois and Maryland said they worried that it’s too unpredictable to provide a permanent solution and that it should at least be accompanied by incentives for data centers to build new power sources and voluntarily reduce electricity use.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he is aware of the shooting and demanded “a full, factual accounting of what’s happened today to ensure transparency and accountability.”

Trump said he “would have preferred going to Chicago,” where local politicians have fiercely resisted his plans, but he suggested it was a “hostile” place with “professional agitators.”

Charlie Kirk is a native of Illinois.