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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois
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| were very saddened to learn of the tragic death of Kevin McCann |
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| of Park Ridge on September 4, 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Following a brawl at a tailgate party on the |
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| campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North |
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| Carolina, Brett Harman, Kevin's best friend since childhood, |
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| was mortally wounded, and Kevin, in defense of his friend, |
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| immediately jumped to tackle the shooter, and was shot and |
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| killed; and
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| WHEREAS, Kevin McCann and Brett Harman grew up together and |
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| were top wrestlers for their high schools; Brett, a U.S. |
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| Marine, was stationed in North Carolina and was scheduled to be |
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| deployed to Iraq in January; Kevin and other friends had |
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| traveled from Chicago to visit Brett over the Labor Day |
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| weekend; it was said that neither boy had a serious bone in |
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| their bodies, and that they were such happy-go-lucky kids; and
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| WHEREAS, Kevin graduated from Notre Dame High School in |
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| Niles in 1999; he was a captain of the varsity wrestling team, |
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| an All-Conference wrestler, a conference, regional, and |
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| sectional wrestling champion, and a starting player on the |
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| varsity football team; and
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| WHEREAS, Kevin went on to graduate from the University of |
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| Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he majored in business and was a |
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| three-year varsity letterman in wrestling; in both the |
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| classroom and in competition, he continued to earn the respect |
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| and admiration of friends and teammates who shared the opinion |
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| that Kevin was an outstanding individual; and
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| WHEREAS, He recently began a career as an insurance broker, |
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| working as an account executive at Mesirow Financial in |