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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The London Towne Houses Cooperative recently
3renamed Community Building #2 at 901 East 100th Place as the
4"Ida Curtis Fisher Community Building"; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Ida Fisher passed away on February 11, 2013; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Ida Fisher was an African-American woman, born in
7Cincinnati, Ohio in 1931; she grew up in a time when society
8repressed both women and African-Americans; she strongly
9valued education and work, becoming the first woman to pass the
10Cincinnati police officer exam; and
 
11    WHEREAS, Ida Fisher worked as a secretary for the
12Foundation for Cooperative Housing; she eventually began
13managing the Kansas City, Missouri location and, due to her
14accomplishments there, was soon asked to travel the country to
15duplicate her success; she created thousands of cooperative
16housing units, eventually landing in Chicago, where she broke
17ground for the 800-unit London Towne Houses Cooperative; and
 
18    WHEREAS, Ida Fisher worked as a Vice-President of the First
19Pennsylvania Bank, where she opened and managed its subsidiary
20in Chicago, Midwest Mortgage Company, and became the bank's top
21money maker in the country; she was inspired to open her own

 

 

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1company, ICF Development; she was also the director of the
2National Cooperative Bank, the Independence Bank of Chicago,
3Indecorp (Independence and the Drexel National Bank), the
4National Association of Housing Cooperatives, the Midwest
5Association of Housing Cooperatives, Chicago's Museum of
6Contemporary Art, and the Joseph Holmes Dance Group; and
 
7    WHEREAS, Ida Fisher was the recipient of the Chicago Rising
8Women in Business award, the Most Success Business Women in
9Chicago award, and the coveted Jerry Voorhis Award from the
10National Association of Housing Cooperatives; and
 
11    WHEREAS, Ida Fisher was the wife of Herbert Fisher and the
12mother of 2 daughters; therefore, be it
 
13    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
14NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
15recognize the extraordinary life of Ida Curtis Fisher and
16support the London Towne Houses Cooperative's decision to name
17a building in her honor; and be it further
 
18    RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
19presented to the London Towne Houses Cooperative and the family
20of Ida Fisher.