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By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – Losing one or two U.S. House seats. Pushing immigrants into the shadows. Missing out on hundreds of millions of federal dollars.
That’s what Gov. JB Pritzker and those with him Thursday say await Illinois if there is not a complete count in the 2020 Census. He signed an executive order to go along with a $29 million state commitment.
“We need vital, secure services that tackle the root of poverty, despair, and violence,” said State Rep. Camille Lilly (D-Chicago).
To the Rev. Janette Wilson of PUSH Coalition, it’s spiritual.
“God has put us together. God will keep us together. And God will help us count each other together,” she said to applause at the signing ceremony Thursday in Chicago.
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