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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to |
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| learn of the death of Nick Maggos of Alton, who passed away on |
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| May 8, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, The death of Nick Maggos marked the passing of one |
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| of Alton's leading businessmen from an earlier, brighter era in |
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| Alton's history; for almost 30 years, from the 1960s until the |
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| early 1990s, Mr. Maggos was active in every significant Alton |
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| community activity; his activities included being president of |
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| the Greater Alton Chamber of Commerce, president and co-founder |
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| of Pride Inc., president of the Alton YMCA, chairman of the |
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| United Way Campaign, member of the boards of the Alton Museum |
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| of History and Art, Hayner Public Library, Family Service |
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| Visiting Nurse Association, and an adviser to Lewis and Clark |
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| Community College, along with Rod St. Clair and Robert |
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| Schrimpf; and
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| WHEREAS, He was vice president of the Center for American |
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| Archeology, member of the World Business Council, chairman of |
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| the Alton Memorial Hospital Foundation, chairman of the 1990 |
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| Easter Seal Campaign, director of the Center for Global |
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| Activities, and adjunct professor at LCCC and president of the |
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| LCCC Foundation; and
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| WHEREAS, Nick Maggos was born April 9, 1929, to the late |
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| Gust and Mary (Davis) Maggos; he was raised in Alton, and |
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| attended Western Military Academy and Washington University in |
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| St. Louis; he was the owner and head of the Pepsi-Cola Alton |
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| Bottling Company until its sale in 1989, and was active in and |
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| an officer of several national soft drink trade associations;
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| Nick's father, Gust Maggos, entered the beer business in Alton |
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| at the end of Prohibition and introduced Pepsi Cola to the |
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| Alton market in 1935; this event eventually grew into the Alton |
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| Pepsi Bottling Company, which was located on East Broadway in |
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| Alton; and
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| WHEREAS, He was the recipient of numerous awards, including |
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| the Pride Medal of Achievement, the Chamber of Commerce |
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| president's Award, and the Guardian Award presented by the |
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| Alton Museum of History and Art; and
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| WHEREAS, He leaves behind his wife, Barbara, of 39 years; |
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| his two daughters, Colleen and Suzy; three grand-children, John |
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| David and his wife, Ann Graziano, and Allison and Michael Dash; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
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| his family and friends, the passing of Nick Maggos; and be it |
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| further
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