Rep. Lance Yednock (D-Ottawa), left, and Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris) hold a news conference in Springfield in November. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]    

Gov. JB Pritzker signed 17 bills on Friday, concluding his bill signings for the first half of the 103rd General Assembly. Among the bills signed Friday was a long-awaited plan to lift the state’s 1980s-era ban on building new nuclear reactors.