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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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| learned with sadness of the death of Paul Chervin of Waukegan |
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| on January 6, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Chervin was born in New York and later moved |
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| to Chicago with his mother and sister; he graduated from high |
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| school at the age of 16; he started at the University of |
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| Illinois Law School by the age of 19, having done undergraduate |
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| work at the University's then-Navy Pier Campus in Chicago, and |
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| graduated in 1967; and
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| WHEREAS, He was barely 22 years of age when he was admitted |
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| to the Illinois bar; he moved to Waukegan in 1967, where he |
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| joined the firm of McClory, Lonchar, Nordigan, and Clark; he |
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| was an assistant Lake County public defender from 1969 until |
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| 1972, when be became a sole practitioner; his legal career |
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| included business and municipal litigation, and of counsel for |
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| banking, newspapers, real estate, and probate; he was counsel |
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| to such entities as the City of Waukegan, the Waukegan Park |
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| District, and the fire protection districts in Countryside, |
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| Long Grove, Lake Villa, Lake Zurich, and Libertyville; he was |
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| managing partner for the Waukegan office of the Chicago law |
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| firm of Wildman, Harrold, Allen, and Dixon; and
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| WHEREAS, He was active in the Lake County and Illinois Bar |
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| associations and a charter member of the Lake County Trial |
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| Lawyers Association; as a retired general counsel of the |
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| Veridian Health Advisory Board, he served on the boards of the |
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| Lake County Chamber of Commerce and Victory Memorial Hospital |
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| and was a member of the Friends of Genesee Theatre; and
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| WHEREAS, He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and his three |
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| sons, Joseph, Aaron, and Adam; therefore, be it
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