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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to
3 learn of the death of Louis F. Cainkar of Evergreen Park, who
4 passed away on April 20, 2010; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar was born in 1911 in St. Louis,
6 Missouri, the youngest son of Slovene immigrants; he studied
7 law at DePaul University and graduated magna cum laude in 1937;
8 at DePaul he met Ruth Hendershott, who became his wife of more
9 than 60 years; after graduation, Mr. Cainkar joined a law firm,
10 where he handled insurance and personal injury cases, before
11 forming his own firm; and
 
12     WHEREAS, He served in the Marine Corps during World War II,
13 achieving the rank of major; in November of 1943, he fought in
14 the Battle of Tarawa, an island in the Pacific Ocean, where
15 more than 3,000 Marines lost their lives; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar founded his law firm in the newly
17 formed village of Evergreen Park in 1951; h became the village
18 attorney that year and began practicing municipal law; he
19 guided the village through the postwar population boom and the
20 development of one of the nation's first shopping malls,
21 Evergreen Plaza; and
 

 

 

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1     WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar's firm, including two of his sons,
2 became one of the more prominent municipal law firms in the
3 Southland, representing suburbs such as Hickory Hills, Alsip,
4 and Oak Lawn as well as many park and library districts and
5 Moraine Valley Community College; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Louis Cainkar was the son of the Slovene National
7 Benefit Society President Vincent Cainkar and his wife, the
8 late Luisa; he was the beloved husband for nearly sixty years
9 of the late Ruth (Lawler Hendershot) and the loving father of
10 Vincent (Cathy), Joseph, James (Donna), Louise (Hassan
11 Mashrah), and Michael (Toni); the beloved grandfather of
12 Joseph, Brooke, Paul, Craig, Max, Carmen, Ryan, Anwar, and
13 Walid; the dear brother of Lillian Cainkar Zasadil, Vincent and
14 Leo Cainkar, and Robert Sannemann; and the fond uncle of Donald
15 Clarke and Judy Zasadil Nelson; therefore, be it
 
16     RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL
17 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with
18 his family and friends, the passing of Louis Cainkar; and be it
19 further
 
20     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
21 presented to the family of Louis Cainkar as a symbol of our
22 sincere sympathy.