Full Text of HR0889 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to honor
Howard A. Tullman and | 4 | | Judith Zindell Tullman on receiving the Anshe Emet
Synagogue's | 5 | | Inaugural Rabbi Michael Siegel Visionary Award; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Tullmans have been devoted members and | 7 | | supporters of Anshe Emet
Synagogue for more than 30 years; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Judith Tullman is a graduate of the University of | 9 | | Illinois and was a devoted
teacher in the Chicago Public | 10 | | Schools for 20 years; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Judith Tullman has tirelessly volunteered for | 12 | | numerous Chicago-based
organizations, including the Wrightwood | 13 | | Neighbors and Parks Board, Facing History, and the
Chicago | 14 | | Children's Museum; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Judith Tullman was founder of the Anshe Emet | 16 | | Social Action Committee
(now called Na'aseh) and the Artists of | 17 | | Anshe Emet; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Judith Tullman has been a fundraiser and board | 19 | | member for PAWS
Chicago for nearly 20 years; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is the past CEO of 1871 in Chicago, | 2 | | a non-profit
startup hub which is home to more than 500 digital | 3 | | startups, and the general managing partner
for the Chicago High | 4 | | Tech Investment Partners, LLC and for G2T3V, LLC, a | 5 | | Chicago-based,
early-stage venture capital fund; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is a nationally-known and | 7 | | recognized authority on
startups, entrepreneurship, change | 8 | | management and disruptive innovation, has more than 50
years of | 9 | | venture growth and management,
IPO/M&A financings, and | 10 | | turn-around experience, and has founded more than a dozen | 11 | | successful, high-tech businesses; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman graduated with honors, with a | 13 | | Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics
and Economics from Northwestern | 14 | | University; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman graduated with honors from the | 16 | | Northwestern University
School of Law, where he was elected to | 17 | | the Order of the Coif, served as the chairman of the
editors of | 18 | | the Law Review, and was selected as a Ford Foundation Fellow, | 19 | | developing, along
with James R. Thompson, former Governor of | 20 | | Illinois, a national Ford Foundation program for
the study of | 21 | | criminal law; and | 22 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman was the Chairman/CEO of Tribeca |
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Arts Academy, which he co-founded in 2007 with | 2 | | the former president of Kendall College and the former chairman | 3 | | of Experiencia; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman has served as a trustee of the | 5 | | Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago, the New York Academy of | 6 | | Art, and the Mary and Leigh Block
Museum of Art at Northwestern | 7 | | University; he was the lead director and former chairman of
the | 8 | | Princeton Review; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman currently serves as a director of | 10 | | Vehcon and SnapSheet
and served as a long-time director and | 11 | | board chairman of the Cobalt Group; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman founded CCC Information Services, | 13 | | the fastest growing
company in Illinois from 1981 through 1985, | 14 | | and, while running CCC, was selected
Entrepreneur of the Year | 15 | | by Peat Marwick and Crain's Chicago Business in 1986 and | 16 | | Venture
Magazine and Arthur Young & Co. in 1987; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman has served as CEO of Eager | 18 | | Enterprises, Information
Kinetics, Inc., COIN, Inc., and the | 19 | | Xceed Group, Inc., president and CEO of Imagination Pilots,
| 20 | | Inc., and chairman and CEO of Tunes.com, Inc.; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Howard Tullman is the chair of the Anshe Emet |
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| 1 | | Synagogue Endowment
Committee and a member of numerous city and | 2 | | state boards, an advisory board member of
HighTower Advisors | 3 | | and Imerman Angels, and an adjunct professor at Northwestern's | 4 | | Kellogg
School, as well as a regular lecturer at the | 5 | | Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Howard and Judith Tullman, and the 1871 team, have | 7 | | worked with the
Dyett High School for the Arts and written a | 8 | | book to help develop the Eagle Entrepreneurs
program to train | 9 | | young entrepreneurs; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, The Tullmans are art lenders and donors to more | 11 | | than a dozen major
museums in Illinois and across the country; | 12 | | therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 14 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 | | congratulate Howard and Judith Tullman
on their lifetime | 16 | | accomplishments as community leaders, philanthropists, | 17 | | innovators, educators
and art collectors, and their receipt of | 18 | | the Inaugural Rabbi Michael Siegel Visionary Award; and be it | 19 | | further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to Howard A. Tullman
and Judith Zindell Tullman as an | 22 | | expression of our esteem and respect.
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