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Meet & Greet / Phone Banking Event with JB Pritzker here in Aurora
Sunday, 2/25/2018 @ 5:30 PM
Come out and meet the Candidate
Candidate for Governor, JB Pritzker is coming to Aurora
Get a chance to meet and talk to the candidate, while helping out his campaign by making some phone calls to local Democrats for him.
From his website:
Husband and father to two children, JB is an entrepreneur that led the creation of a non-profit small business incubator called 1871, which in the last five years is responsible for creating 7,000 new jobs in Illinois, and is now ranked among the top ten tech hubs in the world. He has become a national leader in supporting early childhood education and helped improve teacher training and invested in innovation here in Illinois. He has worked with some great local non-profit organizations to expand Illinois school breakfast program to 230,000 students across Illinois. A descendant of Ukrainian Jews, he was proud to work with the local community of Holocaust survivors to open the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. JB and his wife helped support the Center on Wrongful Convictions, which has become a national leader in rectifying wrongful convictions and did much of the work behind Illinois’s moratorium on capital punishment. Plus he is a huge Blackhawks fan.