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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois are pleased to congratulate the Reverend Stan
4 J. Sloan on being a recipient of the 2006 Human Relations Award
5 given by the Chicago Commission on Human Relations; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Reverend Sloan serves as the Chief Executive
7 Officer of Chicago House and Social Service Agency; Chicago
8 House, the Midwest's first provider of housing and support
9 services to Chicagoans affected by HIV/AIDS, is in its 21st
10 year of service; he began with Chicago House in 2000 and has
11 served as CEO for a quarter of the agency's existence; and
 
12     WHEREAS, Under his leadership, Chicago House has regained
13 financial stability and has built up reserves desperately
14 needed to assure consistency in service delivery; the agency
15 has expanded in both services offered and clients served; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Reverend Sloan, an Episcopal priest with the
17 Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, has been a leader in the homeless
18 and AIDS service communities for over ten years; in June of
19 2005, he was elected by other homeless service providers to
20 serve as the Chair of the Board of the Partnership to End
21 Homelessness, the city's collaborative body of service
22 providers; as Chair, he works with organizations and government
23 entities at the local, State, and federal level on issues
24 facing the 90 homeless agencies it represents; in addition, he
25 recently served on the Governing Board of the Chicago Continuum
26 of Care, where he chaired the Government Relations Committee
27 for the City of Chicago's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness; he
28 serves as a Co-Chair of the Board of the Chicago Housing for
29 Health Partnership and is a former board member of the Illinois
30 Chapter of the ACLU; and
 
31     WHEREAS, For the past six years, he has served as the

 

 

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1 volunteer chaplain of St. Gregory's Episcopal School, an inner
2 city school serving children from the Henry Horner Homes; he
3 has also served as the Pastor of Sts. George and Matthias
4 Church in Roseland; he currently serves on an advisory
5 committee for the American Public University System in
6 Washington, D.C., as well as on the Audience Development and
7 Diversity Committee of the Museum of Contemporary Art; he and
8 Chicago House collaborated with the AIDS Foundation of Chicago
9 and the Lesbian Community Cancer Project to sponsor the first
10 reception for the Thirty Under Thirty GLBT Awards of the Windy
11 City Times; he lives with his partner, Tom Franklin, in Wicker
12 Park; and
 
13     WHEREAS, The Human Relations Award is given annually to
14 people who have worked to break down barriers between
15 communities and have worked for the elimination of bias and
16 discrimination in housing and other social issues; therefore,
17 be it
 
18     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
19 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
20 we congratulate the Reverend Stan J. Sloan on being a recipient
21 of the 2006 Human Relations Award given by the Chicago
22 Commission on Human Relations; and be it further
 
23     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
24 presented to Reverend Sloan as an expression of our esteem.