Full Text of HR0857 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to honor Chinta Strausberg for her | 4 | | work in journalism; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg was born on the South Side of | 6 | | Chicago where her parents lived in her maternal grandfather's | 7 | | "family-only" building; she later moved to Markham, where she | 8 | | lived until the age of 16; she then lived with her maternal | 9 | | grandmother's best friend, Ora Higgins, for a year before | 10 | | getting her own apartment while in her senior year at John | 11 | | Marshall Harlan High School; she subsequently worked at Sears | 12 | | Roebuck & Co., getting off work at midnight and attending | 13 | | college during the day; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg met and married her husband, | 15 | | Bernard, at the age of 21; following his passing, she moved | 16 | | back to Chicago and returned to the Chicago Public Library, | 17 | | where she worked as a senior library clerk; she later worked | 18 | | for the federal government and the University of Illinois; she | 19 | | later began working on the second shift at First National Bank | 20 | | as a computer operator; while working at First National Bank, | 21 | | she graduated from Roosevelt University, where she majored in | 22 | | journalism; after taking several undergraduate courses in | 23 | | journalism at Northwestern University and attending at |
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| 1 | | Medill's School of Journalism in Evanston for a semester, she | 2 | | became a proof-reader/copy editor for the American Hospital | 3 | | Association (AHA); while working full time at the AHA, she | 4 | | worked at WSSD radio as a newscaster, weekly talk show host, | 5 | | acting news director, and acting public affairs director; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, When there were discussions of closing the WSSD | 7 | | radio station, Chinta Strausberg accepted an offer by the | 8 | | managing editor of the Chicago Defender to join the paper; she | 9 | | was officially put on the Defender's payroll on May 10, 1981; | 10 | | she worked for the Chicago Defender for 23 1/2 years as the | 11 | | paper's political reporter, covering city, county, State, | 12 | | federal, national, and international news; she worked in the | 13 | | paper's City Hall newsroom until she resigned on April 30, | 14 | | 2004, when she began working for then-Lieutenant Governor Pat | 15 | | Quinn as senior policy advisor and director of constituent | 16 | | services; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg resigned from the Lieutenant | 18 | | Governor's office on February 2, 2006 to work for late Cook | 19 | | County Board President John H. Stroger, Jr. as director of | 20 | | communications and public affairs; following the election of | 21 | | Mr. Stroger's son as Board President, she briefly served as his | 22 | | director of communications before becoming his assistant; and
| 23 | | WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg currently serves as director of |
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| 1 | | communications for the re-election campaign of United States | 2 | | Representative Bobby L. Rush; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg is a faithful servant at Saint | 4 | | Sabina Church, where she has been affiliated since 1982; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg will be honored for her civic | 6 | | rights and journalism work at an event in her honor on March | 7 | | 12, 2012 at Hardtime Josephine's Cookin' in Chicago; therefore, | 8 | | be it
| 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 11 | | we honor Chinta Strausberg for her work and wish her continued | 12 | | success and happiness in her future endeavors; and be it | 13 | | further
| 14 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 | | presented to Chinta Strausberg as a symbol of our esteem and | 16 | | respect.
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