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SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker stressed added funding for education in his $49.6 billion spending budget proposal Wednesday though also working with the occasion to blast “a virulent strain of nationalism” that he explained has contaminated the nationwide discussion over school curricula and the content of library cabinets. “There is […]