Illinois dedicates restored Springfield armory as Jim Edgar Executive Office Building
State leaders and the Edgar family gathered in Springfield to dedicate the restored Illinois State Armory as the Jim Edgar Executive Office Building, citing his decades of public service and a Rebuild Illinois capital investment that enabled the renovation.
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State officials and members of the Edgar family gathered in Springfield on Aug. 11, 2026, to formally dedicate the restored Illinois State Armory as the Jim Edgar Executive Office Building. The ceremony framed the naming as a working tribute to the late governor’s decades of public service, emphasizing civility, compromise and problem solving as core values for the state workforce housed there.
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