Gov. JB Pritzker criticized to a Sangamon County court ruling pausing his order requiring masks in schools as an “out of step” decision. Speaker of the House Chris Welch (D-Hillside) is asking House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) to help bring more civility to politics after recent attacks toward House Democrats. And Pritzker bolstered his pitch for freezing the state’s gas tax.