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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to |
| 3 | | learn of the death of
Joseph Denis Madigan Jr., who passed away |
| 4 | | on May 21, 2012; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Joseph Madigan Jr. was born in Chicago in 1932; he |
| 6 | | married Carol Ann Malloy in 1958; and
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| 7 | | WHEREAS, Joseph Madigan Jr. was raised in Oak Park and |
| 8 | | attended Fenwick High School and the University of Notre Dame; |
| 9 | | after graduating from Notre Dame, he was commissioned as an |
| 10 | | officer in the United States Navy; while in the Navy, he was |
| 11 | | ordered to run retail operations, including a grocery exchange, |
| 12 | | on a large Navy base in New Jersey; and
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| 13 | | WHEREAS, Madigans was established in Chicago in 1881 by |
| 14 | | Joseph Madigan Jr.'s paternal grandfather, Denis Joseph |
| 15 | | Madigan; during his career, Joseph Madigan Jr. led an expansion |
| 16 | | that took Madigans from its Madison and Crawford flagship to |
| 17 | | the establishment of stores across Chicagoland, including |
| 18 | | stores in Winston Plaza in Melrose Park, Yorktown Shopping |
| 19 | | Center in Lombard, Woodfield Mall, Harlem Irving Plaza, and the |
| 20 | | North Riverside Park and Chicago Ridge Malls, among many |
| 21 | | others; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Joseph Madigan Jr. was well known as a highly |
| 2 | | creative and energetic merchant who foresaw and led a trend |
| 3 | | towards fashionable, price-conscious clothing that has become |
| 4 | | the norm in American retailing; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Joseph Madigan Jr. was preceded in death by his |
| 6 | | parents, Joseph D. Madigan and Florence Walsh Madigan, and his |
| 7 | | sister, Elizabeth Ann "Bette" Morris; and
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| 8 | | WHEREAS, Joseph Madigan Jr. is survived by his loving wife |
| 9 | | of 53 years, Carol; his children and their families, Joseph and |
| 10 | | his wife, Eileen and their children, Mary Carol, Joseph, |
| 11 | | Michael, and Kathryn; John and his wife, Jennifer and their |
| 12 | | children, John, Therese, Daniel, Genevieve, Helen, Christine, |
| 13 | | and Michael Joseph; and Maria and her husband, Patrick Kelly, |
| 14 | | and their children, Patrick Emmett and Caroline Rose; and his |
| 15 | | sister, Nancy Schlacks; therefore, be it
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| 16 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL |
| 17 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with |
| 18 | | his family and friends, the passing of Joseph Denis Madigan |
| 19 | | Jr.; and be it further
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| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
| 21 | | presented to the family of Joseph Madigan Jr. as an expression |
| 22 | | of our sympathy.
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