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Trump cuts hitting farms, food banks in Midwest

Chicago Tribune 25 Mar 2025
Now the administration is threatening to slash the agency’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides low-income families with benefits to help supplement their grocery budgets.
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Amid Donald Trump 2.0, Gov. JB Pritzker ponders running for third term and his national ambitions

Chicago Tribune 24 Mar 2025
JB Pritzker issued a statement that said as much about his plans for the state’s future as his own political future ... That has allowed Pritzker to seek an outsize role in national Democratic politics in the early days of Trump 2.0.
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Gov. Pritzker celebrates $32M Rockford project, warns White House is withholding funds

Journal-Standard 21 Mar 2025
JB Pritzker was in Rockford on Friday to celebrate the $32 million expansion of the Rockford Mass Transit District downtown bus station and garage ... Pritzker said ... Pritzker said that dismantling the U.S.
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Marian 'Cindy' Pritzker dies at 101. What to know about the matriarch and philanthropist

Pontiac Daily Leader 18 Mar 2025
Pritzker family matriarch Marian "Cindy" Pritzker died on March 15 at the age of 101 ... Story continues after photo galleryAbout the Pritzker family ... Liesel Pritzker Simmons and her brother Matthew ...
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Billionaire Hyatt heiress whose name is byword for Dem politics dies aged 101 | Daily ...

The Daily Mail 17 Mar 2025
... of 101, her family announced ... Pritzker was also the aunt of Illinois' Democrat governor JB Pritzker, with the family long involved in liberal politics ... The Pritzker family will hold a private service.
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Cindy Pritzker, beloved family matriarch and philanthropist, dies at 101

Chicago Sun-Times 17 Mar 2025
Marian “CindyFriend Pritzker was the matriarch of one of Chicago’s most powerful families ... Pritzker died Saturday, according to a family representative ... Jay Pritzker built the Hyatt Hotels chain and ...
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Daywatch: Hundreds of misclassified properties fixed

Chicago Tribune 17 Mar 2025
(Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune) Marian ‘CindyPritzker, family matriarch, philanthropist and governor’s aunt, dies at 101 ... Pritzker, who was 101, died Saturday, according to a family spokesperson.
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Immigrant families scramble as state health insurance faces axe

Journal Gazette 17 Mar 2025
In response to the recent audit, Pritzker’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services, which administers the programs, also pointed to the prevalence of untreated chronic conditions and high rates ...
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Marian ‘Cindy’ Pritzker, family matriarch, philanthropist and Gov. JB Pritzker’s aunt, dies at 101

Chicago Tribune 16 Mar 2025
Pritzker raised her family there before she and her husband moved to Chicago in 1979. Pritzker’s husband and his brother, Robert Pritzker, built on the family fortune started by their father, A.N ... Inside the Pritzker family feud.
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Immigrant families scramble as state health insurance for some noncitizens faces the axe in Gov. ...

Chicago Tribune 16 Mar 2025
In response to the recent audit, Pritzker’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services, which administers the programs, also pointed to the prevalence of untreated chronic conditions and high rates ...
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Feds pull grant funding from Illinois fair housing orgs that investigate discrimination

Journal Gazette 15 Mar 2025
Fair housing organizations like his offer legal services and support to anyone facing discrimination in the housing market on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, familial status or disability, receiving hundreds of complaints each year.
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In remarks to teachers union, Pritzker lashes out at Trump\u2019s education cuts

Journal Gazette 14 Mar 2025
JB Pritzker on Thursday delivered more harsh criticism against President Donald Trump’s administration over attempts to drastically downsize, and possibly eliminate, the U.S ... I’ll admit, I don’t watch much of it,” Pritzker said.
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How chaos at the Education Department impacts Illinois schools

Chicago Sun-Times 12 Mar 2025
JB Pritzker last week said Trump’s plans to dismantle the Education Department would hurt working families ... “In Illinois, we strive to affirm, uplift, and support all our students and their families,” Sanders wrote in a letter to educators.
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Activist punched by Chicago police officer during protest in line for $280K settlement

Journal Gazette 12 Mar 2025
JAKE SHERIDAN Chicago Tribune ... Finance Committee aldermen advanced the settlement Monday, setting it up for a final vote Wednesday ... Rep ... The settlements for the victims’ families are for $1 million and $1.5 million, respectively ... JB Pritzker speaks Feb ... .
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Cook Co. housing authority union workers ratify contracts, earn raises after telling of struggle to ...

Journal Gazette 07 Mar 2025
"Illinois needs to quickly and dramatically ramp up our efforts to approve and build new housing, and to give more affordable options to working families," Gov. JB Pritzker said during a news ...
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