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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to honor accomplishments in the | ||||||
| 4 | lives of citizens of the State of Illinois; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Deborah Harrington, a woman who has empowered, | ||||||
| 6 | uplifted, and served the people of Chicago, particularly the | ||||||
| 7 | women of Chicago, has won the Civic Engagement, Community | ||||||
| 8 | Service and Community Organizing Award from the University of | ||||||
| 9 | Illinois at Chicago's Department of Gender and Women's Studies; | ||||||
| 10 | and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Deborah received her B.A. in Anthropology from the | ||||||
| 12 | University of Illinois; she performed postgraduate studies at | ||||||
| 13 | the University of Ghana in West Africa; and | ||||||
| 14 | WHEREAS, Deborah spent the first 20 years of her | ||||||
| 15 | professional career working in the public sector, holding | ||||||
| 16 | positions in the Illinois Department of Employment Security, | ||||||
| 17 | Department of Public Aid, and Department of Human Services; she | ||||||
| 18 | was a member of the Governor's Taskforce for Human Services | ||||||
| 19 | Reform and worked on the design and implementation of the | ||||||
| 20 | State's human services delivery system and on the | ||||||
| 21 | implementation of the 1996 Welfare Act; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Deborah has been exceptionally involved in | ||||||
| 2 | community service and public policy at the local, State, and | ||||||
| 3 | federal levels; she is the President of the Woods Fund of | ||||||
| 4 | Chicago, a Chicago-based foundation whose mission is to "give | ||||||
| 5 | voice to less advantaged people and communities"; as an | ||||||
| 6 | appointee to the public policy advisory board of the National | ||||||
| 7 | Council on Foundations, she facilitated development of the Paul | ||||||
| 8 | Ylvisaker Award for Public Policy; she is a member of the | ||||||
| 9 | Mayoral Policy Caucus; she is a board member of the Donors | ||||||
| 10 | Forum of Chicago and an advisory board member of the Institute | ||||||
| 11 | of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois; | ||||||
| 12 | she is Vice President of the board of Business and Professional | ||||||
| 13 | People for the Public Interest and serves as trustee to several | ||||||
| 14 | other community-based, non-profit, and civic organizations; | ||||||
| 15 | and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Deborah also does extensive volunteer work with | ||||||
| 17 | the Field Museum; she is a fair housing auditor for open | ||||||
| 18 | communities, a facilitator and liaison with the Chicago | ||||||
| 19 | neighborhood policing program, and a mayoral appointee of the | ||||||
| 20 | Chicago Sister Cities International Executive Committee; and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, Deborah has worked tirelessly to combat poverty, | ||||||
| 22 | promote fair housing, and garner resources to support | ||||||
| 23 | community-based organizations struggling to make a difference | ||||||
| 24 | in the lives of low-income women and their families in Chicago; | ||||||
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| 1 | therefore, be it
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| 2 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 3 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 4 | congratulate Deborah Harrington on being given the Civic | ||||||
| 5 | Engagement, Community Service and Community Organizing Award | ||||||
| 6 | from the University of Illinois at Chicago's Department of | ||||||
| 7 | Gender and Women's Studies and wish her continued success in | ||||||
| 8 | the future; and be it further
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| 9 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 10 | presented to Deborah Harrington as a sign of our affection, our | ||||||
| 11 | gratitude, and our respect.
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