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SENATE RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to 
3learn of the death of Jean Alice Augusta Carter-Hill of 
4Chicago, who passed away on June 24, 2016; and
  
 
5    WHEREAS, Jean Carter-Hill was born in Memphis, Tennessee to 
6Patrick Sr. and Annie Long Carter on July 5, 1937; she attended 
7Lake View Elementary School in Arkansas and Woodstock High 
8School in Memphis, where she was a star basketball player; she 
9studied child development, public speaking, and business 
10mathematics at Kenney-King College in Chicago; she married 
11Robert Johnson in 1957 and they settled in Chicago in 1962; and
  
 
12    WHEREAS, Jean Carter-Hill worked for the Chicago Public 
13School District for 25 years; and
  
 
14    WHEREAS, Jean Carter-Hill married Henry Hill in 1978; and
 
15    WHEREAS, Jean Carter-Hill encouraged the youth of her 
16community to be involved in making their neighborhoods a better 
17place to live; in 1996, with her help, they persuaded the city 
18to tear down an abandoned hospital building near the Nicholson 
19School; a wooded area, also  near the Nicholson School, became a 
20campus park and garden and is  now known as the Jean Carter-Hill 
21Community Garden; and
 
 
 
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1    WHEREAS, In the summer of 1997, Jean Carter-Hill co-founded 
2Imagine Englewood IF (IEI) and served as its executive 
3director; IEI continues to operate with a focus on community 
4health and to encourage youth to make positive decisions about 
5their future; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Jean Carter-Hill joined with others to found the 
7Englewood Community Cultural Planning Council, a group of 
8residents, arts and cultural organizations, and other 
9neighborhood organizations, that meets monthly to address 
10community issues through the arts; and
  
 
11    WHEREAS, Jean Carter-Hill was preceded in death by her 
12parents; her brothers, Emmett and Patrick Carter; her sister, 
13Johnnie Naylor; and her stepdaughter, Cynthia Prichett; and
  
 
14    WHEREAS, Jean Carter-Hill is survived by her husband, 
15Henry; her children, Gregory Carter, Sheryl (Jonathan) Lott, 
16Robert Johnson Jr., Debra (Bernard) Coble, and Mark Johnson; 
17her stepchildren, Henry Hill Jr., Michele Hill, and Fredrick 
18Hill; her grandchildren, Latrice (Ignatius), LaShaundra, 
19DeLisa (Charles), Raquel, Dericka, Derrick Jr., Raven, Dejuan, 
20Marissa, Enya, Pierre, Amaris, Fredrick, Deangelo, and Trevor; 
21six great-grandchildren; her sisters, Eloise (Cle) Gardner, 
22and Ann Brewer; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, godchildren, 
 
 
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1and friends; therefore, be it
  
 
2    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL 
3ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of 
4Jean Alice Augusta Carter-Hill, and extend our sincere 
5condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved 
6her; and be it further
  
 
7    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
8presented to  the family of  Jean Carter-Hill as an expression of 
9our deepest sympathy.