Full Text of HR1065 95th General Assembly
HR1065 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Allegra E. Biery, | 4 |
| Gloria Santona, Lauren Streicher, Andrea L. Zopp, and the | 5 |
| Chicago Foundation for Women on the occasion of being honorees | 6 |
| at the Women of Achievement Awards Dinner hosted by the | 7 |
| Anti-Defamation League; and
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| WHEREAS, The Women of Achievement Awards Dinner is an | 9 |
| annual event that honors outstanding women or organizations who | 10 |
| make a difference in their communities; the dinner is one of | 11 |
| the most prestigious events in the Chicago area and one of the | 12 |
| few that is dedicated to the recognition of women; and
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| WHEREAS, Allegra E. Biery is a Senior Vice President of the | 14 |
| Northern Trust Company in Chicago; she is a Managing Director | 15 |
| in Personal Financial Services, a position that makes her | 16 |
| responsible for three financial centers throughout Chicago; | 17 |
| she also serves as chair of the bank's Emerging Wealth Markets | 18 |
| Coalition in Illinois and is the Vice-Chair of their women's | 19 |
| initiative, the Women in Leadership Forum; she spearheaded | 20 |
| Northern Trust Company's corporate-wide initiative, the | 21 |
| VisionKeepers' Forum, which teaches pertinent topics to women | 22 |
| business owners to keep their businesses competitive; she sits | 23 |
| on the boards of the Chicago Foundation for Women, the Chicago |
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| Humanities Festival, the Golden Apple Foundation, Smith | 2 |
| College Alumnae Club of Chicago, and the Oak Street Council; | 3 |
| she is a member of the steering committee of POWER - Opening | 4 |
| Doors for Women, the Chicago Finance Exchange, and the Parkways | 5 |
| Foundation; and
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| WHEREAS, Gloria Santona is the Chief Legal Officer of | 7 |
| McDonald's Corporation, the largest quick service restaurant | 8 |
| company worldwide; she has fostered the legal department's | 9 |
| diversity efforts and on-going legal services, which has | 10 |
| garnered the McDonald's Legal Department many awards for its | 11 |
| legal and educational services; she is a director of Aon | 12 |
| Corporation, serving on the company's Audit, Governance, and | 13 |
| Compliance Committees; she serves on the Boards of the | 14 |
| Association of Corporate Council and the Consititutional | 15 |
| Rights Foundation of Chicago, and as a trustee of Rush | 16 |
| University Medical Center, among many other professional | 17 |
| memberships; she has received numerous awards in recognition of | 18 |
| her community service; and
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| WHEREAS, Lauren Streicher, M.D. is a graduate of the | 20 |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago; after an | 21 |
| internship in Internal Medicine at Northwestern Memorial | 22 |
| Hospital in Chicago, she completed a residency in Obstetrics | 23 |
| and Gynocology at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center; | 24 |
| she currently works in private practice in Chicago and is on |
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| staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; she is an Assistant | 2 |
| Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynocology at | 3 |
| Northwestern University's medical school, The Feinberg School | 4 |
| of Medicine; she is well known throughout the Chicago area, | 5 |
| having appeared on local and national news programs on over 200 | 6 |
| occasions; she regularly appears in the Chicago Sun-Time with | 7 |
| her column, "Ask the Ob-Gyn", and released a book, The | 8 |
| Essential Guide to Hysterectomy, in 2004; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, Andrea L. Zopp received her bachelor's degree in | 10 |
| history and science and her JD degree from Harvard University; | 11 |
| she is currently employed as Senior Vice President and Chief | 12 |
| Human Resources Officer at the Exelon Corporation, a position | 13 |
| that places her in charge of human resouces strategies, work | 14 |
| force planning, compensation, employee health issues, and | 15 |
| corporate security; she currently serves on the Board of | 16 |
| Directors of the Andrew Corporation, a publicly traded | 17 |
| international manufacturer and supplier of telecommunications | 18 |
| systems, components, and solutions, where she serves on the | 19 |
| compensation and nominating and governence committees; she is a | 20 |
| member and former president of the Chicago Inn of Court and is | 21 |
| active in the American Bar Association, where she served as a | 22 |
| member of the Section of Litigation Council; she serves as | 23 |
| Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Area Project, | 24 |
| a community-based delinquency prevention program; she is a | 25 |
| former member of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar |
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| Association; she is also a member of the Black Women Lawyer's | 2 |
| Association, The Chicago Network, and The Economic Club; and
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| WHEREAS, The Chicago Foundation for Women, under the | 4 |
| direction of Mary F. Morten and Hannah Rosenthal, has led one | 5 |
| of the first integrated prevention initiatives in Illinois to | 6 |
| address violence against women and girls, titled "What will it | 7 |
| take? Building the safest state for women and girls"; the | 8 |
| Chicago Foundation for Women will receive a Humanitarian Award | 9 |
| in recognition of this powerful and essential initiative; and
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| WHEREAS, The efforts of these women are indicative of the | 11 |
| great things that a single person, or single organization | 12 |
| committed to the same goal, can achieve for the citizens of | 13 |
| this State, the nation, and the world at large; therefore, be | 14 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 |
| congratulate Allegra E. Biery, Gloria Santona, Lauren | 18 |
| Streicher, Andrea L. Zopp, and the Chicago Foundation for Women | 19 |
| on the occasion of being honorees at the Women of Achievement | 20 |
| Awards Dinner and wish them continued success and happiness in | 21 |
| the future; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| presented to Allegra E. Biery, Gloria Santona, Lauren | 2 |
| Streicher, Andrea L. Zopp, and the Chicago Foundation for Women | 3 |
| as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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