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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois
3 learned with sadness of the death of Paul Chervin of Waukegan
4 on January 6, 2005; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Mr. Chervin was born in New York and later moved
6 to Chicago with his mother and sister; he graduated from high
7 school at the age of 16; he started at the University of
8 Illinois Law School by the age of 19, having done undergraduate
9 work at the University's then-Navy Pier Campus in Chicago, and
10 graduated in 1967; and
 
11     WHEREAS, He was barely 22 years of age when he was admitted
12 to the Illinois bar; he moved to Waukegan in 1967, where he
13 joined the firm of McClory, Lonchar, Nordigan, and Clark; he
14 was an assistant Lake County public defender from 1969 until
15 1972, when be became a sole practitioner; his legal career
16 included business and municipal litigation, and of counsel for
17 banking, newspapers, real estate, and probate; he was counsel
18 to such entities as the City of Waukegan, the Waukegan Park
19 District, and the fire protection districts in Countryside,
20 Long Grove, Lake Villa, Lake Zurich, and Libertyville; he was
21 managing partner for the Waukegan office of the Chicago law
22 firm of Wildman, Harrold, Allen, and Dixon; and
 
23     WHEREAS, He was active in the Lake County and Illinois Bar
24 associations and a charter member of the Lake County Trial
25 Lawyers Association; as a retired general counsel of the
26 Veridian Health Advisory Board, he served on the boards of the
27 Lake County Chamber of Commerce and Victory Memorial Hospital
28 and was a member of the Friends of Genesee Theatre; and
 
29     WHEREAS, He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and his three
30 sons, Joseph, Aaron, and Adam; therefore, be it
 

 

 

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1     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL
2 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of
3 Paul Chervin and extend our sincerest condolences to his
4 family, friends, and community; and be it further
 
5     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
6 presented to his family as an expression of our deepest
7 sympathy.