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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
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    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
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learn of the death of Louis F. Cainkar of Evergreen Park, who 
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passed away on April 20, 2010; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar was born in 1911 in St. Louis, 
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Missouri, the youngest son of Slovene immigrants; he studied 
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law at DePaul University and graduated magna cum laude in 1937; 
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at DePaul he met Ruth Hendershott, who became his wife of more 
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than 60 years; after graduation, Mr. Cainkar joined a law firm, 
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where he handled insurance and personal injury cases, before 
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forming his own firm; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, He served in the Marine Corps during World War II, 
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achieving the rank of major; in November of 1943, he fought in 
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the Battle of Tarawa, an island in the Pacific Ocean, where 
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more than 3,000 Marines lost their lives; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar founded his law firm in the newly 
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formed village of Evergreen Park in 1951; h became the village 
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attorney that year and began practicing municipal law; he 
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guided the village through the postwar population boom and the 
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development of one of the nation's first shopping malls, 
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Evergreen Plaza; and
  
 
 


 






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    WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar's firm, including two of his sons, 
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became one of the more prominent municipal law firms in the 
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Southland, representing suburbs such as Hickory Hills, Alsip, 
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and Oak Lawn as well as many park and library districts and 
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Moraine Valley Community College; and
  
 
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    WHEREAS, Louis Cainkar was the son of the Slovene National 
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Benefit Society President Vincent Cainkar and his wife, the 
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late Luisa; he was the beloved husband for nearly sixty years 
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of the late Ruth (Lawler Hendershot) and the loving father of 
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Vincent (Cathy), Joseph, James (Donna), Louise (Hassan 
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Mashrah), and Michael (Toni); the beloved grandfather of 
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Joseph, Brooke, Paul, Craig, Max, Carmen, Ryan, Anwar, and 
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Walid; the dear brother of Lillian Cainkar Zasadil, Vincent and 
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Leo Cainkar, and Robert Sannemann; and the fond uncle of Donald 
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Clarke and Judy Zasadil Nelson; therefore, be it
  
 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL 
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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with 
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his family and friends, the passing of Louis Cainkar; and be it 
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further
  
 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the family of Louis Cainkar as a symbol of our 
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sincere sympathy.