Three new agency directors and another deputy governor were named by Gov. J.B. Pritzker Thursday.

 

Pritzker named John Kim, a 25-year veteran of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, to head the department. He is currently chief legal counsel for the agency, but has also served as director, interim director, ethics officer and project manager for an IEPA-China pollution prevention project.

 

Kim, who has a law degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, has also been general counsel at the Department of Agriculture and an assistant attorney general.

 

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