Full Text of SR0102 95th General Assembly
SR0102 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 Benedict "Ben" Brocato of Berwyn, who | 4 |
| passed away on March 8, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Brocato, an alderman in the 5th Ward since | 6 |
| 1997, was the longest-serving current alderman in Berwyn; and
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| WHEREAS, At the age of 13, Mr. Brocato and his family moved | 8 |
| from Italy to the Chicago area; after graduating from high | 9 |
| school, he received a manufacturing engineering degree from | 10 |
| Chicago Technical College; Mr. Brocato worked for various | 11 |
| manufacturers, first as a manufacturing engineer, then in | 12 |
| sales; in 1992 he combined his knowledge of both fields and | 13 |
| started his own business, Brodic Machine Tool Sales Inc., in | 14 |
| Berwyn; and
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| WHEREAS, Shortly after he and his wife, Maureen, bought | 16 |
| their home in 1970, he became involved in the community, first | 17 |
| in his son's school in District 98 as well as with Cub Scouts, | 18 |
| PTA, and band parents; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1997, at the prompting of friends, he ran for | 20 |
| alderman and won and later was re-elected twice;
Mr. Brocato | 21 |
| was chairman of the city's Fire and Police Committee, Public |
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| Works Committee, and was recently appointed chairman of the | 2 |
| Education Committee; he helped spearhead a parental | 3 |
| responsibility ordinance, which holds parents liable for the | 4 |
| actions of their children, and he helped to launch many of the | 5 |
| city's senior citizen programs, from the senior bus to the | 6 |
| advocate program;
Mr. Brocato was a member of the Roosevelt | 7 |
| Road Business Association; he was a volunteer for the West | 8 |
| Suburban United Way and the Italian-American Civic | 9 |
| Organization of Berwyn; and he was a senior member of the | 10 |
| Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Machine | 11 |
| Tool Distributors of
America; and
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| WHEREAS, Bendedict "Ben" Brocato is survived by his wife of | 13 |
| 41 years, Maureen; his son, Joseph; his mother, Francesca; his | 14 |
| sisters and a brother in Italy; and his four grandchildren; | 15 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 17 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 18 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Benedict "Ben" Brocato; | 19 |
| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 |
| presented to the family of Benedict "Ben" Brocato as a symbol | 22 |
| of our sympathy.
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