During the race for Illinois governor, candidate J.B. Pritzker stated that he supported repealing the statewide ban on rent control. Now after winning the election and recently taking office, Governor Pritzker could encourage the legislature to move forward with a reversal of the 1997 law that bans rent regulations across the state. Activists in the city of Chicago have stepped up efforts backing rent control as a way to ease rental rate increases seen in gentrifying areas of the city. | 
