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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
| 3 | learn of the death of Benedict "Ben" Brocato of Berwyn, who | ||||||
| 4 | passed away on March 8, 2007; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Mr. Brocato, an alderman in the 5th Ward since | ||||||
| 6 | 1997, was the longest-serving current alderman in Berwyn; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, At the age of 13, Mr. Brocato and his family moved | ||||||
| 8 | from Italy to the Chicago area; after graduating from high | ||||||
| 9 | school, he received a manufacturing engineering degree from | ||||||
| 10 | Chicago Technical College; Mr. Brocato worked for various | ||||||
| 11 | manufacturers, first as a manufacturing engineer, then in | ||||||
| 12 | sales; in 1992 he combined his knowledge of both fields and | ||||||
| 13 | started his own business, Brodic Machine Tool Sales Inc., in | ||||||
| 14 | Berwyn; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Shortly after he and his wife, Maureen, bought | ||||||
| 16 | their home in 1970, he became involved in the community, first | ||||||
| 17 | in his son's school in District 98 as well as with Cub Scouts, | ||||||
| 18 | PTA, and band parents; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, In 1997, at the prompting of friends, he ran for | ||||||
| 20 | alderman and won and later was re-elected twice;
Mr. Brocato | ||||||
| 21 | was chairman of the city's Fire and Police Committee, Public | ||||||
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| 1 | Works Committee, and was recently appointed chairman of the | ||||||
| 2 | Education Committee; he helped spearhead a parental | ||||||
| 3 | responsibility ordinance, which holds parents liable for the | ||||||
| 4 | actions of their children, and he helped to launch many of the | ||||||
| 5 | city's senior citizen programs, from the senior bus to the | ||||||
| 6 | advocate program;
Mr. Brocato was a member of the Roosevelt | ||||||
| 7 | Road Business Association; he was a volunteer for the West | ||||||
| 8 | Suburban United Way and the Italian-American Civic | ||||||
| 9 | Organization of Berwyn; and he was a senior member of the | ||||||
| 10 | Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Machine | ||||||
| 11 | Tool Distributors of
America; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Bendedict "Ben" Brocato is survived by his wife of | ||||||
| 13 | 41 years, Maureen; his son, Joseph; his mother, Francesca; his | ||||||
| 14 | sisters and a brother in Italy; and his four grandchildren; | ||||||
| 15 | therefore, be it
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| 16 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 17 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | ||||||
| 18 | his family and friends, the passing of Benedict "Ben" Brocato; | ||||||
| 19 | and be it further
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| 20 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 21 | presented to the family of Benedict "Ben" Brocato as a symbol | ||||||
| 22 | of our sympathy.
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