Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker has said that he lives “rent-free” in Donald Trump’s head. He also lives part-time in the official governor’s mansion in Springfield.

“It’s the largest governor’s mansion in the country,” Pritzker told me when I met him in Chicago late Friday afternoon. His wife, M. K. Pritzker, oversaw a major redecoration of the 16-room, Italian-style manor after her husband was first elected, in 2018. The governor raves about the job she did.

But does it have a ballroom? I asked.

Pritzker declared this to be a “funny question.” No, he told me, although there is a “large gathering place.”

“Do we call it the ballroom?” he wondered, in the general direction of an aide. She shrugged. (They do.)

Pritzker and I were tucked away in a hybrid conference/break room that was d

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