In 2019, after signing legislation to strengthen protections against workplace sexual harassment and support victims, Governor JB Pritzker declared that Illinois would no longer tolerate looking the other way.
At the bill signing, the Governor said:
"Sexual harassment is unacceptable and will not be tolerated in the state of Illinois."
He also promised:
"...This commonsense law makes it clear that the days of turning a blind eye to sexual harassment in the workplace are over."
Seven years later, those words ring hollow.