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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate learned with |
| 3 | | regret of the death of Joan J. Kosinski of Chicago, who passed |
| 4 | | away on June 29, 2012; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, She was born in 1935 to Stanley and Josephine |
| 6 | | Kurek; she grew up above her Polish immigrant father's tavern |
| 7 | | in the Back of the Yards neighborhood; she graduated from |
| 8 | | Lourdes High School and later Ray-Vogue College of Design; for |
| 9 | | a brief time she ran her own dress shop, Joni's, with the help |
| 10 | | of her sister; in 1957 she married George Kosinski and settled |
| 11 | | on the South Side where they became owners and operators of |
| 12 | | Aluminum Case Corp., a business they would run for more than |
| 13 | | four decades; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, In 1952, at age 17, she was presented as a |
| 15 | | debutante at the Legion of Young Polish Women White and Red |
| 16 | | Ball; she was a life member of the Polish Arts Club and a |
| 17 | | member of the Polish Women's Civic Club since 1976; she served |
| 18 | | as president of the Polish Museum of America for 10 of the 40 |
| 19 | | years she sat on its board and was a former president of the |
| 20 | | Legion of Young Polish Women, her last position being that of |
| 21 | | Board Vice-President; she and her husband received the Polish |
| 22 | | Museum of America Polish Spirit Award in 1990 and the Advocates |
| 23 | | Society Award of Merit in 2003; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In 2003, she was chosen as one in 50 people in the |
| 2 | | country recognized as Polish Americans: Patrons of Culture and |
| 3 | | Art and in 2010, she was named one of the Outstanding Women in |
| 4 | | Philanthropy by the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, The passing of Joan Kosinski has been deeply felt |
| 6 | | by many, especially her daughter, Maria (Martin) Kosinski |
| 7 | | Weihing; her sister, Wanda Kurek; her nieces and nephews, Joan |
| 8 | | (Wayne) Slugocki, Walter (Karen) Kurek, Mary Kompare, Ellen |
| 9 | | (Michael) Allison, Anthony (Sherri) Ucho, and Joseph (Nora) |
| 10 | | Ucho; and her great nieces and nephews, Dr. Kathleen (William |
| 11 | | Barnum) Slugocki, Julie Kurek, Laura Kurek, Michael (Diana) |
| 12 | | Kompare, Dawn (fiance, Jason Pollard) Ucho, Christopher Ucho, |
| 13 | | Molly Allison, and Joseph Ucho Jr.; she was preceded in death |
| 14 | | by her husband, I. George Kosinski; her parents, Stanley and |
| 15 | | Josephine Kurek; her siblings, Walter (late Josephine) Kurek, |
| 16 | | Ted Kurek, and Estelle Kurek; her nephew, Robert Kosinski; her |
| 17 | | great niece, Joan Slugocki; her brother-in-laws, Anthony |
| 18 | | (Jean) Kosinski, Chester (late Helen) Kosinski, and Dennis |
| 19 | | Kosinski; and her sister-in-law, Sophie (late Matt) Ucho; |
| 20 | | therefore, be it
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| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL |
| 22 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of |
| 23 | | Joan Kosinski, and we extend our sincere condolences to her |