Full Text of HR0336 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Corinne | 4 | | (Gieseke) Wood, the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, who | 5 | | passed away on May 18, 2021 in the presence of her family; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood was born in Barrington on May 28, | 7 | | 1954; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood attended the University of Illinois | 9 | | at Urbana-Champaign, where she was selected to the academic | 10 | | honor society, Phi Beta Kappa; she graduated from the Loyola | 11 | | University School of Law and was admitted to the Illinois bar; | 12 | | and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood was named general counsel to the | 14 | | Illinois Commissioner of Banks and Trusts, the agency that at | 15 | | that time oversaw and supervised the State-chartered banks and | 16 | | trust companies of Illinois; in this role, she developed her | 17 | | understanding of the financial affairs of Illinois' private | 18 | | sector; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood and her family lived in Lake | 20 | | Forest, and her neighbors selected her to fill a growing | 21 | | number of community leadership roles and positions; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, As a community leader, Lt. Gov. Wood sought | 2 | | election to the Illinois House of Representatives for the 59th | 3 | | District; she was elected in November 1996 and served a single | 4 | | term before moving on to statewide office; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood was already a cancer survivor | 6 | | during her successful run on the Republican Party ticket for | 7 | | statewide office in 1998, in which she won election as the | 8 | | first female Lieutenant Governor of Illinois; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood's tireless campaigning won admirers | 10 | | in both parties, and in November 1998, after enjoying a | 11 | | winning ticket with Governor-elect George Ryan, she swung into | 12 | | action as a champion of professional women and their | 13 | | aspirations; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood is credited as being one of the | 15 | | first Illinois lieutenant governors to get a routine seat at | 16 | | the table in high-level policy discussions; her identity as a | 17 | | survivor made her a front row observer of the inadequacies in | 18 | | Illinois' responses to cancer, including chronic cancer and | 19 | | the lives and dreams of people in remission; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood, along with her team of advocates, | 21 | | stabilized the status of the income tax checkoff for breast, |
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| 1 | | cervical, and ovarian cancer research on Illinois income tax | 2 | | forms; the Penny Severns Breast, Cervical and Ovarian Cancer | 3 | | Research Fund provides annual grants, disbursed by the | 4 | | Illinois Department of Public Health, to a variety of | 5 | | institutions engaged in cutting-edge research into these | 6 | | subsets of deadly disease; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, The name of the fund, the Penny Severns Breast, | 8 | | Cervical and Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, commemorates the | 9 | | bipartisan nature of the fight against cancer; it is named to | 10 | | celebrate the life of a former Illinois General Assembly | 11 | | colleague of Lt. Gov. Wood, a Democrat, who also courageously | 12 | | battled cancer while serving as a lawmaker; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood left office in 2003 and returned to | 14 | | the private sector, having developed lasting friendships in | 15 | | both political parties; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood's cancer returned in 2006, and she | 17 | | fought it courageously for 15 years; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood, despite her health challenges, | 19 | | continued and redoubled her fight for reforms to the process | 20 | | Illinois uses every 10 years to redistrict seats in the U.S. | 21 | | Congress and in the Illinois General Assembly; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Lt. Gov. Wood, upon her passing, received praise | 2 | | from members of both parties as a pioneer for Illinois women in | 3 | | statewide elected office and a woman of great personal | 4 | | courage; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 6 | | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 7 | | we honor the memory of and celebrate the life of Corinne Wood, | 8 | | the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, a pioneer both | 9 | | professionally and in government; and be it further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to Lt. Gov. Wood's husband, Paul Wood, and to her | 12 | | three children, Ashley, Brandon, and Courtney.
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