Full Text of HR0802 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives wish | 3 | | to congratulate Pete Nenni on his retirement as deputy | 4 | | managing editor of The Daily Herald after more than 40 years of | 5 | | dedicated work in the newspaper business; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, Pete Nenni was | 7 | | raised in Mount Prospect and attended Forest View High School | 8 | | in Arlington Heights and Harper Community College in Palatine; | 9 | | he graduated from Northern Illinois University with a | 10 | | journalism major and a political science minor; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Pete Nenni first worked with the Barrington Press | 12 | | weekly newspaper group in Barrington; he joined the Daily | 13 | | Herald as a reporter in 1980; he was the legal affairs reporter | 14 | | for one year and the transportation reporter for five years; | 15 | | he also covered local government and business; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Pete Nenni served as the Lake County | 17 | | editor/manager for more than ten years and as an assistant | 18 | | city editor in the Cook County office for six years; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Pete Nenni was named deputy managing editor in | 20 | | February of 2017 to oversee local coverage in the Cook, Lake, | 21 | | Fox, and DuPage zones, which included organizing coverage |
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| 1 | | plans for the website and print editions and overseeing the | 2 | | local reporting and editing staffs; he was also tasked with | 3 | | many organizational and efficiency-based special projects; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Pete Nenni reported on events such as the Chicago | 5 | | Tylenol murders, the Laurie Dann shootings, the Arlington Park | 6 | | Racetrack fire, the Brown's Fried Chicken massacre, and a | 7 | | presidential primary in New Hampshire and wrote stories that | 8 | | exposed government corruption, among others; he has | 9 | | interviewed President Gerald Ford, former Gov. James Thompson, | 10 | | and Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer Joe Cronin; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Pete Nenni was a member of the Daily Herald | 12 | | Editorial Board and served on the Northern Illinois Newspaper | 13 | | Association Board of Directors, including a term as president | 14 | | in 2009; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, During his reporting career at the Daily Herald, | 16 | | Pete Nenni won 12 state and regional writing awards, including | 17 | | five Peter Lisagor Awards for Public Service and other | 18 | | reporting; those awards stemmed from investigative projects | 19 | | focusing on faulty equipment and poor maintenance of a | 20 | | suburban bus system and mishaps and near mishaps on the | 21 | | runways and taxiways at O'Hare International Airport; he was | 22 | | named the Daily Herald's Manager of the Year in 2000; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Counting Pete Nenni's work on newspapers in | 2 | | junior high school, high school, college, and professionally, | 3 | | his journalism career has spanned 46 years in the Northwest | 4 | | suburbs; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Pete Nenni is respected by his peers and those | 6 | | who worked for him; Daily Herald editor John Lampinen called | 7 | | him "a devoted journalist, a caring mentor and leader, and a | 8 | | tremendously good person"; therefore, be it
| 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 10 | | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 11 | | we wish to congratulate Pete Nenni on his retirement as deputy | 12 | | managing editor of The Daily Herald; and be it further
| 13 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 | | presented to Pete Nenni as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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