Full Text of SR0478 95th General Assembly
SR0478 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
John Lukehart of Oak Park, who passed | 4 |
| away on December 11, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, John Lukehart was born on his family's farm in | 6 |
| Laurel, Iowa; he graduated from Iowa State University with a | 7 |
| degree in Distributed Studies, focusing on sociology and | 8 |
| political science; he moved to Oak Park in 1980; and
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| WHEREAS, John Lukehart developed a sterling reputation as | 10 |
| an advocate for fair housing; he worked tirelessly for the | 11 |
| Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities, a fair | 12 |
| housing organization started by Martin Luther King in the | 13 |
| 1960s; he was actively involved in the Village of Oak Park's | 14 |
| community relations commission, dealing with discrimination in | 15 |
| the 1980s; he was also instrumental in the creation of the | 16 |
| Illinois Housing Roundtable, a group that coordinates the | 17 |
| activities of the various fair housing groups in the Chicago | 18 |
| area; and
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| WHEREAS, As an advocate for fair housing, John Lukehart | 20 |
| attempted to stress the relationship between employment, | 21 |
| housing, and affirmative housing strategies for low and | 22 |
| moderate income families; his innate ability to connect with |
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| labor unions, faith-based groups, middle and upper income | 2 |
| people, social justice groups, civil rights groups, and | 3 |
| business entities aided the council immensely in its fight for | 4 |
| fairness in housing practices; and
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| WHEREAS, John Lukehart's passion for equal treatment for | 6 |
| all was only matched by his intense love for art; he worked | 7 |
| with the Oak Park Area Arts Council, serving as president of | 8 |
| the organization since 2002; he was instrumental in the passage | 9 |
| of Oak Park's Public Arts Ordinance; he helped to pay for a | 10 |
| lease for the first two large sculptures placed in Oak Park out | 11 |
| of his own pocket; he was also a proud supporter of Off The | 12 |
| Wall, a summer arts employment program for local teens; and he | 13 |
| was awarded the Joseph Randall Shapiro Award in 2006 by the Oak | 14 |
| Park Area Arts Council for his numerous contributions to the | 15 |
| arts; and
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| WHEREAS, John Lukehart's love for art was also personal; he | 17 |
| was known as a great photographer, donating photos to the arts | 18 |
| council's annual fall fundraiser; and
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| WHEREAS, John Lukehart was preceded in death by his father, | 20 |
| L.J. "Mike" Lukehart; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, John Lukehart is survived by his wife, Mary Daly | 22 |
| Lewis; his children, Jennifer and Jason Lukehart; his |
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| step-children, Colin and Alison Lewis; his mother, Donna (nee | 2 |
| Stewart); his siblings, Lynda (Morris) Wolken and Greg (Cheryl) | 3 |
| Lukehart; his in-laws, Sharon, Patrick (Lorraine), Edward | 4 |
| (Sharon), and Michael (Stella) Daly; and his many aunts, | 5 |
| uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, John Lukehart will be remembered by all who knew | 7 |
| and loved him as a quiet and calm, yet passionate person, whose | 8 |
| dedication to the arts and fair treatment to all were without | 9 |
| peer; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 11 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 12 |
| his family and friends, the passing of John Lukehart; and be it | 13 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to the family of John Lukehart as an expression of | 16 |
| our sympathy.
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