Full Text of SR0327 095th General Assembly
SR0327 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
Ellis E. Reid III of Chicago, who passed | 4 |
| away on August 7, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Ellis E. Reid III was born in Bronzeville and grew | 6 |
| up in Woodlawn and Park Manor; he graduated from Englewood High | 7 |
| School, then attended the University of Illinois at | 8 |
| Urbana-Champaign, where he received his bachelor's degree in | 9 |
| 1956; he received his law degree from the University of Chicago | 10 |
| Law School in 1959; and
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| WHEREAS, Ellis E. Reid III was a well-known and respected | 12 |
| attorney and judge throughout the Chicago area; he was a | 13 |
| prosecutor in the case against former State's Attorney Edward | 14 |
| Hanrahan and police officers accused of wrongdoing in a raid | 15 |
| that left two Black Panthers dead; he successfully argued in | 16 |
| federal court to overturn a Chicago ordinance in 1970, which | 17 |
| prevented women from making drinks unless they had a liquor | 18 |
| license or were related to someone who did; he served for many | 19 |
| years as a judge in the Cook County Circuit Court's 1st | 20 |
| Municipal District in Chicago and he was the first black judge | 21 |
| to head that district; he also served as a Justice in the | 22 |
| Illinois Appellate Court, 1st District, 5th Division from 2000 | 23 |
| to 2004; he became the court's presiding justice in 2004; and
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| WHEREAS, Ellis E. Reid III also represented various | 2 |
| organizations; among them, he served as General Counsel to | 3 |
| Local 453 of the United Auto Workers, AFL-CIO from 1960 to | 4 |
| 1972; he served as General Counsel to Local 1006 of the | 5 |
| American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, | 6 |
| AFL-CIO from 1976 to 1983; and he was a proud, dedicated member | 7 |
| of and long-time General Counsel to the Kappa Alpha Psi | 8 |
| Fraternity, Inc.; and
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| WHEREAS, Ellis E. Reid III was a former President of the | 10 |
| Illinois Judicial Council; and he was a former President of the | 11 |
| Cook County Bar Association, the first African-American bar | 12 |
| association in the country; and
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| WHEREAS, Ellis E. Reid III had an intense love of the law | 14 |
| and had an interest in mentoring young law students; and
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| WHEREAS, Ellis E. Reid III is by survived his wife, Sheila; | 16 |
| his sons, Ellis E. Reid IV and David Reid; his daughter, | 17 |
| Noelle; his siblings, Betty Baugh, Virginia Nichols, and Harry | 18 |
| Reid; and his four grandchildren; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 20 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 21 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Ellis E. Reid III; and |
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| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 3 |
| presented to the family of Ellis E. Reid III as an expression | 4 |
| of our sympathy.
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