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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, The Joint Civic Committee of  Italian  Americans
 3    will present its annual "Dante Award" on May 22, 2003; and

 4        WHEREAS,  This  year's  Dante Award recipient will be Joe
 5    Cappo, Editor-at-Large of Crain's Chicago Business  Magazine;
 6    he     most     recently     served     as     senior    vice
 7    president-international  and  licensing  for   Crain,   which
 8    publishes    more   than   30   business   and   professional
 9    publications; and

10        WHEREAS,  In  his  corporate  position,  he   established
11    licensing agreements that expanded Crain publications to more
12    than   20   countries  around  the  world;  as  part  of  his
13    international duties he was also  instrumental  in  acquiring
14    Crain's  first  non-English publications in Mexico and served
15    as that subsidiary's first president; his duties also include
16    the licensing of Crain's editorial material to major database
17    archives, news services, and other data vendors; and

18        WHEREAS, Mr. Cappo joined Crain Communications in 1978 as
19    a columnist for  the  then  newly  launched  Crain's  Chicago
20    Business; in the intervening years, he served as publisher of
21    Crain's  Chicago  Business, publisher of Advertising Age, and
22    group publisher over  seven  journals;  his  opinion  column,
23    often  on marketing related topics, has appeared regularly in
24    Crain's Chicago Business since its first issue; and

25        WHEREAS, Before joining Crain, Mr. Cappo  worked  at  the
26    old Chicago Daily News, covering crime, politics, and general
27    assignments  for six years before writing a daily advertising
28    and marketing column for nine  years;  when  the  Daily  News
29    folded  in 1978, he moved his column to the Chicago Sun-Times
30    for a brief time; and

31        WHEREAS,  A  native  of  Chicago,  he   attended   DePaul
 
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 1    University  where  he  majored  in  philosophy  and economics
 2    before a two-year term in the United  States  Army;  for  ten
 3    years,  he  hosted  "Crain's American Business," the inflight
 4    audio channel on American  Airlines;  he  formerly  broadcast
 5    twice-daily  business commentaries on Chicago's FM 100 for 18
 6    years and is the author of "FutureScope:  Success  Strategies
 7    for the 1990s and Beyond," a best-selling book about the 21st
 8    Century consumer; and

 9        WHEREAS,  Mr.  Cappo's  most  recent book, "The Future of
10    Advertising: New Media, New Clients and New Consumers in  the
11    Post-Television  Age,"  was  published  by McGraw-Hill and is
12    scheduled to be published in at least four  other  languages;
13    and

14        WHEREAS, From 1988 to 2000, Mr. Cappo was world president
15    of the International Advertising Association and still serves
16    as  world  treasurer on the global advertising organization's
17    executive committee; he is a  member  of  the  editorial  and
18    international  committees of the American Business Media, and
19    the international committee of  the  Magazine  Publishers  of
20    America; for more than 20 years, he has been a vice president
21    of  the Off The Street Club, a 102-year-old organization that
22    serves disadvantaged children on the Chicago's West Side;  in
23    past years, he served as president of the Association of Area
24    Business   Publications  and  board  member  of  the  Chicago
25    Advertising Federation; and

26        WHEREAS, As a writer, commentator, and  media  executive,
27    he  has  lectured extensively across the United States and in
28    more that 30 countries in Latin America,  Asia,  Africa,  and
29    Europe-including  Italy;  he  has won numerous awards for his
30    work over the years including: the Peter Lisagor  Award  from
31    the  Society  of  Professional Journalists, the Distinguished
32    Alumni Award from DePaul University, the Page One Award  from
33    the Chicago Newspaper Guild, the Champion Award from the YWCA
 
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 1    of  Metropolitan  Chicago,  the Outstanding Achievement Award
 2    from the Justinian Society  of  Lawyers,  the  Best  Original
 3    Column  from  the  Association of Area Business Publications,
 4    the Best Feature Story from the Illinois  Press  Association,
 5    and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the DePaul University
 6    Communications Department; and

 7        WHEREAS,  Mr.  Cappo  and  his  wife,  Mary Anne, live in
 8    Wilmette and have two grown  children,  Elizabeth  and  John;
 9    therefore, be it

10        RESOLVED,   BY   THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE
11    NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,  that
12    we congratulate Joe Cappo on being named the recipient of the
13    2003  Dante  Award, presented by the Joint Civic Committee of
14    Italian  Americans,  for   his   dedication,   service,   and
15    inspiration in the communication field; and be it further

16        RESOLVED,  That  a  suitable  copy  of this resolution be
17    presented to Joe Cappo with our respect and esteem.