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The following is a list of events of the year 2022 in Illinois.

Governor: J. B. Pritzker (D)
Lieutenant governor: Juliana Stratton (D)
Attorney general: Kwame Raoul (D)
Secretary of State: Alexi Giannoulias (D)
Comptroller: Susana Mendoza (D)
Treasurer: Mike Frerichs (D)

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January 5 - Deidre Silas, a Division of Children and Family Services child protection specialist, is stabbed and killed during a home visit in Thayer.^[1]
February 28 - Governor J.B. Pritzker lifts the indoor mask mandate for Illinois residents.^[2]
April 1 - AMITA Health splits up with AdventHealth and Ascension rebranding their hospitals.^[3]^[4]
May 19 - Magnificent Mile shooting: A mass shooting occurred in Chicago's Magnificent Mile shopping district, killing 2 and injuring 8.^[5]
June 2 - AIDS Garden Chicago opened to the public.^[6]
June 14 - A new flag for Cook County was adopted.^[7]
July 4 - Highland Park parade shooting: during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, 21-year-old Robert Eugene Crimo III shot into the parade, killing 7 and wounding 48.^[8]
July 7 - Lisa Holder White is sworn in as the first black woman to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court.^[9]
July 18 - Santa Khan was murdered by her husband after she shared her divorce experience on TikTok. He then shot himself when police arrived on scene.^[10]
July 31 - One teenager was killed and three others injured in a shooting at the end of a graduation party at a brewpub in Decatur.^[11]
August 2 - Parts of central Illinois received very heavy rainfall and numerous counties were impacted by flooding, including the cities of Decatur, Dawson, Spaulding, and Barclay.^[12]
October 23 - Five men were shot, three fatally, when gunfire erupted at an intersection taken over by a drag-racing caravan of more than 100 cars in the Brighton Park neighborhood.^[13]
October 31 - 14 people were shot, one fatally, in a drive-by shooting in the East Garfield Park neighborhood during a vigil balloon release.^[14]
November 26 - Four people were shot, two fatally, just after midnight in the West Pullman neighborhood in the south side.^[15]
December 4 - Five teenagers were shot inside a home in Zion.^[16]
December 11 - Three adults were killed and one wounded at a birthday party inside Vera Lounge in Portage Park in the northwest side.^[17]
December 16 - Four students were shot, two fatally, outside Benito Juarez Community Academy in the Pilsen neighborhood in the west side.^[18]

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20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

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