Bill Text: IL HR0509 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Marian "Cindy" Pritzker on her 100th birthday in December 2023.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-11-09 - Resolution Adopted [HR0509 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0509-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Marian "Cindy" Pritzker | ||||||
| 4 | on the occasion of her 100th birthday in December 2023; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Cindy Pritzker was born to Judge Hugo Friend and | ||||||
| 6 | Sadie (Cohn) Friend in Chicago in December 1923; she graduated | ||||||
| 7 | from Hyde Park High School in 1943 and attended Grinnell | ||||||
| 8 | College in Iowa from 1943 to 1945; she married Jay A. Pritzker | ||||||
| 9 | in 1947, and together they had five children, the late Nancy, | ||||||
| 10 | Thomas, John, Daniel, and Gigi; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Cindy Pritzker served on the Board of Trustees | ||||||
| 12 | for Grinnell College from 1971 to 1978, as chairwoman of the | ||||||
| 13 | President's Council for the Museum of Science and Industry in | ||||||
| 14 | Chicago from 1982 to 1983, as president of the Chicago Public | ||||||
| 15 | Library from 1989 to 1997, and as a member of the Board of | ||||||
| 16 | Directors for the Chicago Public Library from 1984 to 1997; | ||||||
| 17 | and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, Cindy Pritzker is the past president of the | ||||||
| 19 | Chicago Public Library Foundation and has been a member of the | ||||||
| 20 | Board of Directors of the Art Institute of Chicago, the | ||||||
| 21 | Medical Research Institute Council of Michael Reese Hospital, | ||||||
| 22 | the Emergency Fund for Needy People, the Women's Board of | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern University, the Board of Directors at the Museum | ||||||
| 2 | of Science and Industry, the Women's Board of the Lyric Opera | ||||||
| 3 | of Chicago, and the Friends of Psychiatry Committee at | ||||||
| 4 | Stanford University, where she has also been active in its | ||||||
| 5 | Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Cindy Pritzker currently serves as a board member | ||||||
| 7 | for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, an international prize | ||||||
| 8 | established by her and her husband through the Hyatt | ||||||
| 9 | Foundation in 1979, which is awarded each year to a living | ||||||
| 10 | architect or architects for significant achievement; | ||||||
| 11 | therefore, be it
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| 12 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 13 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 14 | we congratulate Marian "Cindy" Pritzker on her 100th birthday | ||||||
| 15 | in December 2023; and be it further
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