Claim: When COVID-19 struck, the Illinois Department of Employment Security "was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime."
Fact-check: Fact-checking Pritzker on historic unemployment spike claim
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Kiannah Sepeda-Miller
Date published: 2020-08-14T00:00:00