Full Text of SR0307 096th General Assembly
SR0307 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Allen "Bo" Price of Evanston, who passed | 4 |
| away on May 1, 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Allen "Bo" Price was a lifelong resident of | 6 |
| Evanston; he grew up on Darrow Avenue as one of the ten | 7 |
| children in his family; and
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| WHEREAS, Allen "Bo" Price, along with five of his brothers, | 9 |
| was drafted during World War II; he joined the U.S. Army in | 10 |
| 1943 and fought in Europe from D-Day to VE-Day; he was one of | 11 |
| seven African-Americans featured in the 2007 documentary, "A | 12 |
| Distant Shore: African-Americans of D-Day"; he remained an | 13 |
| advocate for veterans' rights for the remainder of his life, | 14 |
| ensuring that wreaths were laid on the graves of local soldiers | 15 |
| every Memorial Day; and | 16 |
| WHEREAS, Allen "Bo" Price was employed with the Illinois | 17 |
| Highway Department and spent decades as a shoe repairman in | 18 |
| Glenview; he also made a life with the Snell Post of the | 19 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars and the young people he served at | 20 |
| Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center; and
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| WHEREAS, Allen "Bo" Price founded the Evanston Vanguards |
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| Rifle and Drill Team in 1947; he was also an accomplished drill | 2 |
| team instructor, taking hundreds of local drill team members | 3 |
| around the country to compete against the nation's top | 4 |
| contenders; under his direction, the drill teams won numerous | 5 |
| State and national titles; he also began two drum and bugle | 6 |
| corps; in total, he trained more than 2,000 girls and boys; and
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| WHEREAS, Allen "Bo" Price was a co-founder of the Council | 8 |
| of Elders Pops and Moms (COE-POPS), a group that helped | 9 |
| discourage gang involvement in the 1980s; he was president of | 10 |
| the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center advisory board and | 11 |
| effectively pushed to improve, renovate, and expand the | 12 |
| facility and add more programs to engage young people; he was a | 13 |
| founding member and former commander of the Veterans of Foreign | 14 |
| Wars William B. Snell Post #7186 and a fixture as emcee of | 15 |
| Veterans Day and Memorial Day programs at Fountain Square; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1998, Allen "Bo" Price had an honorary street | 17 |
| named for him, Allen "Bo" Price Drive, in honor of his | 18 |
| dedication to helping young people at Foster Field and the | 19 |
| Foster Community Center, later renamed Fleetwood-Jourdain; in | 20 |
| 2006, the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Theatre saluted him | 21 |
| with a play titled "Honoring a Living Legend: The Life and | 22 |
| Times of Allen 'Bo' Price"; and | 23 |
| WHEREAS, Allen "Bo" Price will be remembered by all who |
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| knew and loved him as an intensely patriotic and caring man; | 2 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 4 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 5 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Allen "Bo" Price; and be | 6 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 |
| presented to the family of Allen "Bo" Price as an expression of | 9 |
| our sympathy.
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