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Gov. J.B. Pritzker, during an unrelated news conference in Belleville, was asked about Madigan’s announcement. Rather than focus on the former speaker, Pritzker lavished praise his family: “Look, I wish former Chairman Madigan, former Rep. Madigan, former Speaker Madigan well. One thing I will say is that when you serve as long, and in as dedicated a fashion in terms of just (the) sheer … number of hours that the man put into the job, his family can really suffer. It’s a challenge for the spouses and children and grandchildren of somebody who’s put that much into public service and I just want to call them out today and say, they really deserve kudos for, you know, the public service that that former Speaker Madigan did because it’s the family that often suffers … the fact that he’s not home when they’d like him to be.”