Full Text of SR0034 095th General Assembly
SR0034 95TH 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 Joseph B. Cicero of the Albany Park | 4 |
| neighborhood of Chicago, who passed away on January 12, 2007; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Cicero was born in Chicago in 1938; he was a | 7 |
| graduate of Amundsen High School, where he played center on the | 8 |
| football team; he was a 1960 graduate of the University of | 9 |
| Illinois and a 1963 graduate of the University of Chicago Law | 10 |
| School; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Cicero worked as a labor-union attorney for | 12 |
| the Central States Joint Board AFL-CIO until 1976, when he took | 13 |
| the full-time position of executive director of the North River | 14 |
| Commission, an umbrella organization made up of about 100 | 15 |
| smaller neighborhood organizations, he retired from that | 16 |
| position after 21 years; and
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| WHEREAS, Joseph Cicero worked to save the Northwest Side | 18 |
| nature preserve from developers in the early 1970s; today the | 19 |
| property is known as North Park Village, and includes a park, | 20 |
| fitness center, educational facilities, subsidized senior | 21 |
| citizen housing, and 46 acres of nature preserve; and
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| WHEREAS, He is also responsible for revitalizing the Albany | 2 |
| Park area when others were giving up the community; he pushed | 3 |
| for the opening of a gifted student high school, resulting in | 4 |
| Northside College Preparatory High School opening in 1999; and
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| WHEREAS, Joseph B. Cicero is survived by his wife, Marilyn | 6 |
| nee Karpinski; his children, Marc (Lindsey), Lisa (Matt) | 7 |
| Wilson, and Erica (Joseph) Shidle; his grandchildren, Cecilia | 8 |
| and Julia Wilson, Margo Cicero, and Laura Shidle; he was | 9 |
| preceded in death by his parents, Sam and Theresa Cicero; | 10 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 12 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 13 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Joseph B. Cicero; and be | 14 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to the family of Joseph B. Cicero as a symbol of our | 17 |
| respect.
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