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UPDATE: (10:15 a.m.) — An Illinois State University graduate student said in the aftermath of a deadly shooting near their apartment building that it’s “the first time he didn’t feel safe.”
The man accused of killing seven people and injuring dozens more at a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb rejected a deal requiring him to plead guilty to seven charges of murder ...
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The governor is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. Since becoming a state in 1818, 43 people have served as governor of Illinois; before statehood, it had only one territorial governor, Ninian Edwards. The longest-serving governor was James R. Thompson, who was elected to four terms lasting 14 years, from 1977 to 1991.
The shooting began at 10:14 a.m. in downtown Highland Park, with the shooter firing a rifle from the rooftop of the Ross Cosmetics building, [5] a local store on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and 2nd Street. [6] The gunman had gained access to the elevated position by using an unsecured ladder attached to the building. [7]
The governor is commander-in-chief of the state's land, air and sea forces when they are in state service. Illinois is one of 13 states that does not place a term limit for governor. [c] The 43rd and current governor is JB Pritzker, a Democrat who took office on January 14, 2019. [5] Pritzker was re-elected in 2022 by a 12% margin. [6]
Illinois prosecutors charged Robert Crimo Jr. under a unconstitutionally vague law, his lawyer argued at a hearing earlier this month in Waukegan, north of Highland Park where the shooting took place.
William G. Stratton State Park, on the Illinois River, in Morris, Illinois. [14] The William G. Stratton Building (formerly the State Office Building), in the Illinois State Capitol complex, which houses offices of many state legislators and other state agencies and was completed during his first term as governor. [15]