HR0509 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HR0509 LRB103 35324 ECR 65376 r

HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives wish to congratulate Marian "Cindy" Pritzker on the occasion of her 100th birthday in December 2023; and

WHEREAS, Cindy Pritzker was born to Judge Hugo Friend and Sadie (Cohn) Friend in Chicago in December 1923; she graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1943 and attended Grinnell College in Iowa from 1943 to 1945; she married Jay A. Pritzker in 1947, and together they had five children, the late Nancy, Thomas, John, Daniel, and Gigi; and

WHEREAS, Cindy Pritzker served on the Board of Trustees for Grinnell College from 1971 to 1978, as chairwoman of the President's Council for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago from 1982 to 1983, as president of the Chicago Public Library from 1989 to 1997, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Chicago Public Library from 1984 to 1997; and

WHEREAS, Cindy Pritzker is the past president of the Chicago Public Library Foundation and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Medical Research Institute Council of Michael Reese Hospital, the Emergency Fund for Needy People, the Women's Board of Northwestern University, the Board of Directors at the Museum of Science and Industry, the Women's Board of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Friends of Psychiatry Committee at Stanford University, where she has also been active in its Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; and

WHEREAS, Cindy Pritzker currently serves as a board member for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, an international prize established by her and her husband through the Hyatt Foundation in 1979, which is awarded each year to a living architect or architects for significant achievement; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Marian "Cindy" Pritzker on her 100th birthday in December 2023; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Cindy Pritzker as an expression of our esteem and respect.