Full Text of HR0087 94th General Assembly
HR0087 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Steve Neal was one of a kind; and
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| WHEREAS, Seldom in the State's collective institutional | 4 |
| memory did a person transplant himself and his family to the | 5 |
| Illinois political and governmental scene and take on the cloak | 6 |
| of a lifelong resident with the deepest of roots; and
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| WHEREAS, Infrequently in this modern, electronic era of | 8 |
| 24-hour news cycles, never-ending tracking polls, e-mail, and | 9 |
| instant messages, did a person make fascinating reading out the | 10 |
| personal, hand-written, stamped correspondence of former | 11 |
| presidents, first ladies, and generals; and
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| WHEREAS, Seldom in an age of synergy, downloads, CD burns, | 13 |
| did a person influence so many city, state and national | 14 |
| governmental and political decisions from behind a mountain of | 15 |
| history books with a backdrop of posters dating back to bygone | 16 |
| times; and
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| WHEREAS, Rarely did a person understand the power of the | 18 |
| pen and the swath it would leave across the body politic when | 19 |
| used as a rapier, broad blade, and scalpel, all in the same | 20 |
| one-sided duel; and
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| WHEREAS, This resolution could also recount the reverence | 22 |
| held for Elvis, The Duke Wayne, Ike, and Harry, but those | 23 |
| legends and countless others might now be on call to be "grab a | 24 |
| bite" in another place with our chronicler and friend, Steve | 25 |
| Neal; and
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| WHEREAS, Steve Neal's accomplishments have been detailed | 27 |
| by some of our most gifted writers in recent days so those | 28 |
| achievements need not be redundantly recounted here; and
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| WHEREAS, Beyond his written words that appeared in the | 2 |
| Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, the hundreds of pages | 3 |
| of books or those verbal musings broadcast across the state, | 4 |
| Steve Neal will be remembered, cherished, and missed as a | 5 |
| person who could bring divergent, sometimes combative, | 6 |
| personas together to find common ground or, more often, set | 7 |
| aside those differences while making time to celebrate the | 8 |
| magic of our humanity; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 11 |
| we express our deepest sympathies on the passing of Steve Neal | 12 |
| to the family, friends, and colleagues of Steve Neal and, | 13 |
| further, our appreciation for the contribution Steve Neal made | 14 |
| to the betterment of the quality of life for the people of the | 15 |
| State of Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 |
| presented to his family as an expression of our deepest | 18 |
| sympathy.
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