Full Text of HR0498 95th General Assembly
HR0498 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of
Angela | 4 |
| Perez Miller of Chicago, who passed away on May 26, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Angela Perez Miller's family came to Chicago in | 6 |
| the 1920s from Mexico; her parents were the late Jesse and | 7 |
| Emilia Perez; and
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| WHEREAS, Angela Perez Miller attended the University of | 9 |
| Illinois at Chicago, where she acquired two master's degrees | 10 |
| and a Ph.D in public policy analysis; she was a former Chicago | 11 |
| public school elementary school teacher and administrator; her | 12 |
| last job with the district was director of staff training and | 13 |
| development in the Department of Special Education; as an | 14 |
| educator, she focused much of her professional life pushing for | 15 |
| bilingual education and helping Hispanic children, | 16 |
| specifically those with special education needs; after her | 17 |
| departure from the Chicago public schools she taught bilingual | 18 |
| education and educational policy at DePaul University and the | 19 |
| University of Illinois at Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Angela Perez Miller was a past board president of | 21 |
| the Latino Institute, a civil rights think tank that addressed | 22 |
| Latino concerns in Chicago; at one time, it was noted as one of |
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| the largest and most influential Hispanic think tanks in | 2 |
| Chicago; she was a member of Senator Miguel Del Valle's | 3 |
| education committee and a founding member of the Alivio Medical | 4 |
| Center, which opened in 1989 to provide access to primary | 5 |
| health care services to predominately Latino communities; and
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| WHEREAS, Angela Perez Miller was an avid traveler and opera | 7 |
| lover; she frequently traveled to Mexico and other places with | 8 |
| her girlfriends, a group of Latina women who called themselves | 9 |
| "Las Viejas", a term used to refer to respected female elders; | 10 |
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| WHEREAS, Angela Perez Miller will be remembered by all who | 12 |
| knew her as a passionate, compassionate, and fearless woman who | 13 |
| focused herself fully on the success of Latino schoolchildren | 14 |
| in the city of Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Angela Perez Miller was the loving mother of Dion | 16 |
| Miller (Susan Mullen) Perez; the proud grandmother of Donovan, | 17 |
| Manuel, and Antonio; and the dear cousin of the late Manuel | 18 |
| Perez Jr.; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 20 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 21 |
| mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of Angela | 22 |
| Perez Miller; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to the family of Angela Perez Miller as an expression | 3 |
| of our sympathy.
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