One person was in custody Tuesday morning for throwing rocks at Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s home in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, breaking three windows, authorities said
The governor and first lady were home at the time of the Monday morning incident, according to the Illinois State Police. No one was hurt.
About 9:40 a.m., state troopers assigned to the governor’s executive protection unit responded to a disturbance at the home. The troopers searched the area with Chicago police, who arrested the suspect, state police said.
No charges have been announced yet.
Monday’s incident comes nearly six months after someone left a threatening message for Pritzker on April 15 in a phone call to the Governor’s Office of Constituent Affairs, state police have said. An Aurora man was charged with one felony count of threatening a public official on accusations that he made comments about Pritzker in the message, including that he was going to “kill you,” officials said.
The governor also endured a number of threats during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Monday’s threat against Pritzker was among the latest against a public official.
Just days earlier, a man brought a loaded handgun into the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison and demanded to see Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, who was not in the building at the time. Authorities said the man returned later that night with a loaded assault-style rifle after posting bail, but the building was closed for a couple of hours at that point.
He reportedly again demanded to see Evers before being taken into custody a second time.
Last year, it was discovered that Evers was on a gunman’s hit list when the gunman was suspected of shooting and killing a retired judge in his home in Wisconsin. Others on that list included Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In 2020, Whitmer was targeted in a kidnapping plot.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.