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Illinois will keep standing up—for working families, for seniors, for children, and for the basic dignity of every person who deserves access to food.

I offer my love and continuing prayers to her mother Donna, and Sonya’s entire family as they relive the trauma of her passing yet remain determined to enact change.

May we speak her name and remember her for the fullness of her life: Sonya Massey will not be forgotten.

Her final moments were a devastating example of how a system meant to protect and serve can fail, but the accountability we saw today is a reminder to keep hope alive for a world where tragedies like Sonya's no longer occur.