Ken Griffin of Citadel again leads Illinois in Forbes' yearly list of the world's billionaires.
The list includes 16 people from Illinois, down by one from 17 on last year's list.
Not on this year's Illinois list is Penny Pritzker, who was on the 2016 list and recently left her post as U.S. Commerce Secretary. There are no newcomers on the list from Illinois.
Five Pritzkers are among the 16 in Illinois on this year's list: J.B., Thomas, Gigi, Jennifer and Nicholas Pritzker II.
Griffin, CEO of the Chicago hedge fund firm, had a net worth of $8 billion as of Feb. 17, according to Forbes, up from $7.5 billion on last year's list. He is 166th overall on the world list.
Second in Illinois is Sam Zell, with a net worth of $5 billion. Third is J.B. Pritzker, at $3.4 billion.
Bill Gates leads the overall list for the fourth straight year, Forbes said, with a net worth of $86 billion.
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