While states like Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio and Texas have tax-free weekends, Illinois has 10 days of a sales tax holiday. Unlike tax-free weekends, there will still be a sales tax in Illinois. The holiday will only reduce tax rates as many prepare for back-to-school shopping and only certain purchases will qualify.

“In no way are we saying that the risk of unlawful political patronage no longer exists within Illinois,” a two-judge panel wrote in its ruling. “Of course it does: nobody is naive to the state’s embarrassing history.” But the court found that reforms instituted under Pritzker and his predecessor, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, have satisfied the requirements of the consent decree and that continuing to enforce it “is no longer warranted or tolerable.”