JB Pritzker

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632 appearances 13 recordings 6 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 2 Jul

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Pod Save America · President of Peace Invades Chicago (feat. JB Pritzker) · 10 Oct 2025 podcast

Well, day before yesterday, Condé Nast named us the best big city in America.

So let's start with that.

Thank you.

And I have to say, you know, we've had truly an amazing summer.

And I would point out we've had a greater tourism than ever before in the history of Chicago and in the state of Illinois.

The idea that people are continuing to come to Chicago to visit us, and yet somehow it's a hellhole and crime-ridden, and people are wearing flak jackets, and murders are happening right and left around you, it's ludicrous.

Now, I recognize we're a big city.

We've had crime in the past.

I think every big city's had a wave of crime that they've had to deal with.

But four years ago to today,

half the number of homicides in the state of Illinois, in the city of Chicago, rather.

The state, by the way, the state of Illinois, including the city, doesn't rank in the bottom half in terms of violent crime.

We're 19th.

I would like to be first, best, most, you know, safest.

That would be first.

We're 19th safest.

So, you know, working on the rest.

But the point is, everything that he's saying about Chicago and Illinois is just something that he's got drilled into his head from I don't know when.

And the man doesn't read anything.

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