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1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
3 | | Representatives are pleased to recognize Chicago Tribune |
4 | | reporter David Jackson on receiving the Education Writers's |
5 | | Award for his series with Gary Marx on truancy; and
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6 | | WHEREAS, The Education Writers Association has given a top |
7 | | award to a 2012 Chicago Tribune series that used internal |
8 | | Chicago attendance data to reveal a devastating pattern of |
9 | | school absences in grades K-8 that disproportionately affects |
10 | | African-American youth and children with disabilities; while |
11 | | Chicago officials for years published upbeat attendance |
12 | | statistics, the newspaper found roughly 32,000 elementary |
13 | | students missed at least a month of classes in a year, while |
14 | | thousands more simply vanished from the attendance rolls; and
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15 | | WHEREAS, Chosen from among hundreds of submissions across |
16 | | the country, the series won first prize for investigative |
17 | | reporting among large newspapers; and
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18 | | WHEREAS, Days after the publication of the series in |
19 | | November 2012, State lawmakers began working on reforms aimed |
20 | | at saving thousands of children from isolation and failure; and
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21 | | WHEREAS, David Jackson has been with the Chicago Tribune |
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1 | | since 1991, except for one year with The Washington Post, where |
2 | | he shared in a 1999 Pulitzer Prize; he has been a Pulitzer |
3 | | finalist 3 times; his articles have prompted congressional |
4 | | hearings, law enforcement indictments, and legislative reform; |
5 | | and
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6 | | WHEREAS, David Jackson has investigated Illinois nursing |
7 | | homes, which led to sweeping changes in how they are run, |
8 | | mortgage fraud, exposing the link between gang members and the |
9 | | real estate industry, the coal mining industry, exposing |
10 | | numerous safety violations, school food illness outbreaks, and |
11 | | the connection between some of Chicago's top cops and crime |
12 | | syndicate figures; and
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13 | | WHEREAS, David Jackson has won the Medill Medal for Courage |
14 | | in Journalism; therefore, be it |
15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
16 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
17 | | we recognize Chicago Tribune reporter David Jackson on |
18 | | receiving the Education Writers's Award for his series with |
19 | | Gary Marx on truancy and thank him for his efforts in |
20 | | investigative journalism to uncover those stores that need to |
21 | | be told; and be it further
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22 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |