Full Text of SR0970 96th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of
Bill Jacobs of Hinsdale, who passed away | 4 | | on September 5, 2010; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Bill Jacobs was well-known throughout | 6 | | metropolitan Chicago for his thriving automobile dealership | 7 | | business; he began in Joliet with a Chevrolet dealership that | 8 | | he purchased from his father at the age of 23, which made him | 9 | | the youngest large-volume Chevrolet dealer ever appointed by | 10 | | General Motors; over the years, he built the group into 10 | 11 | | dealerships with Illinois franchises for BMW, Mini, | 12 | | Volkswagen, Land Rover, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Mazda, Subaru, | 13 | | Kia, and Mitsubishi; last year, the Bill Jacobs Automotive | 14 | | Group employed about 480 staff and earned around $300 million | 15 | | in sales; once he had a sizable and deep management team in | 16 | | place, he began expanding into auto-related and real estate | 17 | | businesses; he also became a noted collector of antique cars | 18 | | that regularly appeared and were sold at major antique auto | 19 | | shows from Pebble Beach to Europe; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Bill Jacobs served on the National Dealer Councils | 21 | | for BMW, Land Rover, and Chevrolet; he was also president of | 22 | | the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana Chevrolet Dealers | 23 | | Advertising Group and a member of the advisory boards of 2 |
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, Bill Jacobs and his dealerships were the | 3 | | recipients of numerous awards, including the Time Magazine | 4 | | Quality Dealer of the Year Award, the General Motors Jack Smith | 5 | | Award, and the Chevrolet and Cadillac Genuine Leader Award; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Bill Jacobs had a life-long involvement with the | 7 | | communities were he did business; he served as both education | 8 | | chair and president of the Chicago Chapter of the YPO and was | 9 | | involved in the WPO; he was the recipient of the Rush | 10 | | Neurobehavioral Center's Living Proof Award; he was a founding | 11 | | member of the RNBC advisory board; he served on the Friends of | 12 | | Prentice Hospital Advisory Board and the Hinsdale Center for | 13 | | the Arts Board; he was a founding member and substantial | 14 | | contributor of the Will County Center for Economic Development; | 15 | | the Bill Jacobs Group was also recognized by the Susan G. Komen | 16 | | Breast Cancer Foundation for 10 consecutive years for raising | 17 | | the most funds of any BMW dealership in the United States; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Bill Jacobs is survived by his wife, Linda R. | 19 | | Jacobs; his sons, William T. Jacobs III, Kevin M. Jacobs, | 20 | | Maximilian K. Jacobs, and Clayton R. Jacobs; and his mother, | 21 | | Jeanne Jacobs; therefore, be it
| 22 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL |
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| 1 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 2 | | his family and friends, the passing of Bill Jacobs; and be it | 3 | | further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to the family of Bill Jacobs as an expression of our | 6 | | sympathy.
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