Full Text of HR0462 95th General Assembly
HR0462 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 Niles Township | 4 |
| Supervisor Thomas Joseph McElligott on his retirement; and
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| WHEREAS, Thomas Joseph McElligott was born on September 11, | 6 |
| 1925 on the west side of Chicago; he is the fourth of five | 7 |
| children; and
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| WHEREAS, Thomas Joseph McElligott attended Our Lady of the | 9 |
| Angels grammar school and Quigley High School; he joined the | 10 |
| Navy in 1943 during World War II; he was sent to Carson Newman | 11 |
| College in Tennessee, Midshipman's School at Columbia | 12 |
| University in New York, and then to Oklahoma to learn Japanese; | 13 |
| he was commissioned in July 1945 and served in the Pacific | 14 |
| Theater at a naval base on Okinawa until his discharge in | 15 |
| August 1946; he returned to Chicago and graduated from Loyola | 16 |
| University in 1948 and then entered law school at Georgetown | 17 |
| University; he graduated from Georgetown in the spring of 1951 | 18 |
| and was admitted to the Illinois bar in November of that year; | 19 |
| he practiced law with the firm of McMahon and Plunkett from | 20 |
| 1951 until he went into solo practice in 1959; and
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| WHEREAS, Thomas Joseph McElligott met Kathryn Hester in | 22 |
| 1951, shortly after he graduated from Georgetown and returned |
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| to Chicago; after a whirlwind courtship of three years, Tom and | 2 |
| Kay married on August 14, 1954, in St. Giles Church in Oak | 3 |
| Park; they had seven bright, beautiful, fun-loving children: | 4 |
| Terence, Mary Jo, Eileen, Michael, Daniel, William, and Thomas | 5 |
| Sean; they now have sixteen grandchildren; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, Thomas Joseph McElligott and his family moved from | 7 |
| Chicago to Skokie in 1960, where they lived in the Fairview | 8 |
| area for twelve years; they moved into a bigger house in the | 9 |
| Lorel Park area in 1972; and
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| WHEREAS, Thomas Joseph McElligott was interested in local | 11 |
| government from his first days in Skokie; he joined the South | 12 |
| Fairview Home Owners Association and became involved in the hot | 13 |
| issues at that time, which were zoning and school board | 14 |
| elections; soon after, Tom was appointed to the office of the | 15 |
| Corporation Counsel of Skokie, where he remained for four | 16 |
| years; his areas of expertise were the Plan Commission and | 17 |
| Zoning Board; he was elected a Trustee of Skokie in 1969, where | 18 |
| he remained for two terms; in 1977 he was elected a Trustee on | 19 |
| the Niles Township Board; he was appointed Supervisor in 1981; | 20 |
| he has remained the Supervisor of the Township until the | 21 |
| present, having been re-elected many times; and | 22 |
| WHEREAS, As Niles Township Supervisor, Thomas Joseph | 23 |
| McElligott has been responsible for many important |
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| accomplishments; he was a catalyst for the founding of the | 2 |
| Niles Township Community Child Care Center; he helped set up a | 3 |
| continuing education Adult Computer Education program; he was | 4 |
| responsible for enlarging the Niles Township Food Pantry, which | 5 |
| now serves over 1,500 individuals per month; and he was | 6 |
| instrumental in the modernization of the Township building; | 7 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 9 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 10 |
| congratulate Thomas Joseph McElligott on his retirement, thank | 11 |
| him for his many years of public service, and wish him | 12 |
| continued success and happiness in the future; and be it | 13 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to Thomas Joseph McElligott as a symbol of our esteem | 16 |
| and respect.
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