Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has gotten accustomed to not knowing what day of the week it is.He’s become accustomed to 12- to 16-hour work days, every day since March 5. That’s when he told Illinois about the fifth confirmed case of coronavirus, a briefing he held in the governor’s statehouse office, his staff standing shoulder-to-shoulder behind him before social distancing was a thing.Since then, for nearly 40 straight days through an election, weekends and rafts of executive orders, Pritzker has led afternoon briefings that have elevated his profile as he maps out the state’s COVID-19...…Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has gotten accustomed to not knowing what day of the week it is.He’s become accustomed to 12- to 16-hour work days, every day since March 5. That’s when he told Illinois about the fifth confirmed case of coronavirus, a briefing he held in the governor’s statehouse office, his staff standing shoulder-to-shoulder behind him before social distancing was a thing.Since then, for nearly 40 straight days through an election, weekends and rafts of executive orders, Pritzker has led afternoon briefings that have elevated his profile as he maps out the state’s COVID-19...WW…

With Illinois several weeks from its COVID-19 apex, Gov. JB Pritzker repeatedly signaled Tuesday that he does not plan to permit an early-May reopening of businesses across the state.Doing so, the Democratic governor said, could undo the curve-flattening effects he attributes to his stay-at-home order that has shut down wide swaths of the state’s economy for more than four weeks.“It’s true it is working,” Pritzker said during his Tuesday COVID-19 briefing, referring to his stay-at-home edict that first took effect March 21 and expires on April 30. “To remove it entirely is to simply open...…With Illinois several weeks from its COVID-19 apex, Gov. JB Pritzker repeatedly signaled Tuesday that he does not plan to permit an early-May reopening of businesses across the state.Doing so, the Democratic governor said, could undo the curve-flattening effects he attributes to his stay-at-home order that has shut down wide swaths of the state’s economy for more than four weeks.“It’s true it is working,” Pritzker said during his Tuesday COVID-19 briefing, referring to his stay-at-home edict that first took effect March 21 and expires on April 30. “To remove it entirely is to simply open...WW…