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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened
3to learn of the death of Peter James McLennon, who passed away
4on January 27, 2023 at the age of 80; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon was the son of a physician and
6attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary before graduating from
7Fenwick High School; and
 
8    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon received undergraduate degrees in
9history and statistics from the University of Illinois at
10Chicago; and
 
11    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon's undergraduate education took him
12eleven years and involved six other schools; he also spent
13time as an Army drill sergeant in Louisiana and as a deckhand
14aboard a Great Lakes freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon performed research for the
16advertising agency Foote, Cone & Belding and also advised on
17policy and election procedures for former Cook County Clerk
18David Orr; and
 
19    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon owned a printing company named
20Otis, which is a name he shared with his brother Bob who

 

 

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1founded the Wisconsin blues band, Otis and the Alligators; and
 
2    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon became the chief researcher for
3Carol Mosely Braun in 1992 when he helped her lead a successful
4campaign for the U.S. Senate; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon once bicycled alone from Texas to
6Chicago in a test of fortitude and solitude; and
 
7    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon moved no further from Chicago than
8Oak Park after marrying his wife, the late Phyllis Stepak
9McLennon, though he never settled; and
 
10    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon and Phyllis once bought a
11three-flat and moved three times, first into the building and
12twice more in changing floors; and
 
13    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon's stories about life and his
14experiences mixed merriment with scorn and scholarship; he was
15never wrong about saints and medieval schisms; and
 
16    WHEREAS, Peter McLennon is survived by his two daughters,
17Sarah and Paula McLennon; his son-in-law, P.J. Klapperich;
18Piper, Skyler, and Oscar Klapperich; his sister, MaryEllen
19Pollock; and his brother; therefore, be it
 

 

 

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1    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL
2ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
3Peter James McLennon and extend our sincere condolences to his
4family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it
5further
 
6    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
7presented to the family of Peter James McLennon as an
8expression of our deepest sympathy.