Kane County Reporter

State Sen. Don DeWitte (R-St. Charles) joined the rest of the Senate GOP and thanked his support staff last week in honor of Administrative Professionals Day. 

"It's Administrative Professionals Day here in Springfield," DeWitte said in his Wednesday video, "and I want to give a shoutout to two ladies who keep my life in order. Nicole Padgett here in Springfield, Beck Gillam at our office in West Dundee. You guys keep me on the straight and narrow and I appreciate you every single day. Have a great day, congratulations and thanks for all the work you do."

DeWitte was recently in the news for calling out Gov. J.B. Pritzker for disbursing COVID relief money to dissolved businesses, according to earlier reporting by Kane County Reporter. 

“If legislators, who know their districts best, would have been given access to the applicants applying for these grants (our requests were denied)," Dewitte said according to the March 25 article. "Perhaps we could have flushed out some of these bad actors before the Pritzker administration issued checks to businesses either out of business or simply nonexistent.”

The U.S. has been celebrating Administrative Professionals Day in some shape or form since World War II. 

The first National Secretaries Day was organized in 1952. Over the years, the name changed to Professional Secretaries Day. In 2000, the International Association of Administrative Professionals announced that name would be changed to Administrative Professionals Day.