Full Text of HR0172 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois General Assembly wish | 3 | | to honor 4 south suburban mayors as they complete their time in | 4 | | office; Mayors Irene H. Brodie, Donald Peloquin, Lou Sherman, | 5 | | and Jack Swan have decided to retire after years of public | 6 | | service; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Irene Brodie launched her campaign for the | 8 | | mayorship of the Village of Robbins in 1989 and has held the | 9 | | position ever since; she is the current, longest-serving,
| 10 | | female, African-American mayor in the nation; her reign as
| 11 | | mayor saw improvements in the water and sewer systems, roads | 12 | | and transportation, code enforcement, economic development,
| 13 | | grant procurement, land acquisition, residential development,
| 14 | | and public safety; her 36-year tenure in government
consists of | 15 | | 12 years as municipal clerk for the Village of
Robbins and 24 | 16 | | years as the mayor; she is a longtime educator
and | 17 | | administrator; her scholarship program has funded the tuition | 18 | | costs for
hundreds of students throughout the years and her | 19 | | individual
efforts have produced teachers, lawyers, doctors, | 20 | | engineers,
and educators around the globe; she has hired, | 21 | | financially
supported, tutored, counseled, and graduated | 22 | | hundreds of
residents from Robbins and the surrounding | 23 | | communities; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Irene Brodie was the vice-president of the | 2 | | Illinois Municipal
League, executive board member and | 3 | | assistant secretary of the National Conference of Black Mayors, | 4 | | and the chair of the
Education Committee and Scholarship | 5 | | Committee for the National Conference of Black Mayors; she has | 6 | | been appointed to numerous gubernatorial transition teams and | 7 | | has been on various State
and federal advisory boards; she was | 8 | | a member of the
Metropolitan Mayors Caucus under Mayor Richard | 9 | | Daley, served on
President Clinton's environmental think-tank | 10 | | group, and was a
guest lecturer at the Harvard University | 11 | | Graduate School of
Business; she is married to J. Edmon Brodie | 12 | | and they have one child, Jeraye E. Brodie; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Donald Peloquin is a lifelong resident of Blue | 14 | | Island and has been mayor since 1985; he was alderman of the | 15 | | 4th Ward from 1981-1985; he is a member of various | 16 | | organizations including the Southwest Conference of Mayors, | 17 | | the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association, and the | 18 | | Metropolitan Mayors Caucus; he is chairman of the CREATE | 19 | | Committee of the Metropolitan Planning Council; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Lou Sherman has been the Steger Village President | 21 | | since 1973; during his years as mayor, he served as president | 22 | | of the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association and as | 23 | | head of the organization's transportation committee; he was a | 24 | | member of the Chicago Area Transportation Study; he has held |
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| 1 | | volunteer positions at the county and State level, being | 2 | | appointed to the Cook County Community Block Grant advisory | 3 | | board in 1977 and as vice-president of the Illinois Municipal | 4 | | League in 1994; he moved to Steger in 1958 and became a member | 5 | | of the Steger Kiwanis Club and head of its boy's baseball | 6 | | league; he and his wife, Andrea, are members of St. Liborius | 7 | | Church; he is a former Kiwanis Lt. Governor and a life member | 8 | | of the organization as well as three-time president of the | 9 | | local Kiwanis; he is a member of the Steger DARE committee, the | 10 | | Chamber of Commerce, and the American Legion; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Jack Swan has been the Thornton Village President | 12 | | for the past 20 years; during his 5 terms as village president, | 13 | | he has established a full-time paramedic program, expanded the | 14 | | police and public works departments, and created a full-time | 15 | | recreation department; he has overseen numerous large economic | 16 | | development projects within the community and has helped keep | 17 | | Thornton's tax rates stable; during and after his office hours | 18 | | he always made himself available to residents to listen to | 19 | | their ideas and concerns; he spearheaded the free senior | 20 | | citizen driveway and sidewalk plowing program and at times, | 21 | | personally plowed the school-route sidewalks for Wolcott | 22 | | students; he has lived in Thornton for 45 years and has been | 23 | | married to Peggy for 46 and they have 3 children, Jim, Penny, | 24 | | and Jackie; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Mayors Sherman, Brodie, Peloquin, and Swan will be | 2 | | honored at the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association | 3 | | dinner on March 21, 2013; therefore, be it
| 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 6 | | we honor and thank these 4 individuals for the service they | 7 | | have given to their communities over these past many years and | 8 | | wish them well in all their future endeavours; and be it | 9 | | further
| 10 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 11 | | presented to Mayors Irene Brodie, Donald Peloquin, Lou Sherman, | 12 | | and Jack Swan as an expression of our esteem and respect.
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