Michael Frerichs (pronounced FREH-ricks) was born and raised in the small, downstate farming community of Gifford, Illinois (population 1,000 on an optimistic day). The son of a Teamster truck driver and a university secretary and AFSCME member, Mike was a first-generation college graduate when he earned a degree from Yale University. After graduation he spent two years in Taiwan where he taught English to
Susana Mendoza has led a Transparency Revolution as Illinois Comptroller. She passed the landmark Debt Transparency Act, which has opened up the state’s books, giving legislators up-to-date information for the first time to draft budgets. Newspapers around the country have praised her as the gold standard of transparency on COVID spending and encouraged their own state governments to follow her example. She has transformed
Governor JB Pritzker was sworn in as the 43rd Governor of Illinois on January 14, 2019. Since then, he has been working every day to put Springfield back on the side of working families. Governor Pritzker has delivered on his promises for the people of Illinois — increasing the minimum wage to a living wage, launching the largest infrastructure project in Illinois history, making college more affordable, expanding
