Full Text of HR0151 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to commend Alderperson Susan Sadlowski | 4 | | Garza on her service to the 10th Ward as a member of the | 5 | | Chicago City Council; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Ald. Sadlowski Garza is a lifelong Chicagoan and | 7 | | 10th Ward resident; she is the daughter of famed steelworker | 8 | | and labor leader Edward Sadlowski; she earned her Bachelor of | 9 | | Arts from Governors State University and her master's degree | 10 | | in Counseling from Concordia University; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Ald. Sadlowski Garza has dedicated her entire | 12 | | life to the youth and families of the 10th Ward, starting out | 13 | | as a lunch lady at South Shore High School and later becoming a | 14 | | counselor at Jane Addams Elementary School; she is also a | 15 | | former area vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza was first elected in | 17 | | 2015, defeating longtime 10th Ward Ald. John Pope by just 20 | 18 | | votes and becoming the first active member of the Chicago | 19 | | Teachers Union to be elected to the Chicago City Council and | 20 | | the first woman to represent the 10th Ward; she won her second | 21 | | term in 2019, earning nearly 69% of the vote; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, During her tenure, Ald. Sadlowski Garza has | 2 | | worked to protect public interest, increase equality for women | 3 | | and the LGBTQ+ community, and foster business relationships; | 4 | | her accomplishments include aiding in raising the minimum wage | 5 | | in Chicago to $15 an hour a full two years before the State of | 6 | | Illinois did, pushing through the Fair Workweek Ordinance that | 7 | | requires most large employers to give their workers a two-week | 8 | | notice of their schedules in an effort to reduce the stress | 9 | | caused by unpredictable shift work, and recovering over $1 | 10 | | million for food service workers due to wage theft claims | 11 | | against Mondelez and Burger King, among others; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Ald. Sadlowski Garza has managed to secure major | 13 | | school capital investments, including $3.8 million for Jane | 14 | | Addams Elementary School, $15 million for Washington High | 15 | | School, and $2.8 million for Gallistel Elementary School; she | 16 | | has additionally been a part of putting $11.2 million towards | 17 | | improvements and infrastructure, which funded such projects as | 18 | | track resurfacing at Rowan Park, tree installation from 104th | 19 | | to 109th on Torrence Avenue, arts programs and fairs, and the | 20 | | installation of new sidewalks and streetlights; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Ald. Sadlowski Garza has served as chair of the | 22 | | Chicago City Council's Progressive Reform Caucus, chair of the | 23 | | Committee on Workforce Development, and a member of the
| 24 | | Committee on Budget and Government Operations, the
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| 1 | | on Committees and Rules, the
Committee on Education and Child | 2 | | Development, the
Committee on Ethics and Government Oversight, | 3 | | the Committee on Finance, the
Committee on Health and Human | 4 | | Relations, the
Committee on Special Events, Cultural Affairs | 5 | | and Recreation, the
Committee on Workforce Development, and | 6 | | several joint committees; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Ald. Sadlowski Garza is married to Raul Garza and | 8 | | is the proud mother of four children and the grandmother of | 9 | | two; therefore, be it
| 10 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 11 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 12 | | we commend Alderperson Susan Sadlowski Garza for her work on | 13 | | the Chicago City Council, and we thank her for her years of | 14 | | dedicated service to the 10th Ward of Chicago and the City of | 15 | | Chicago; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to Ald. Sadlowski Garza as a symbol of our esteem and | 18 | | respect.
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