Full Text of SR0793 96th General Assembly
SR0793 96TH 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 Louis F. Cainkar of Evergreen Park, who | 4 |
| passed away on April 20, 2010; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar was born in 1911 in St. Louis, | 6 |
| Missouri, the youngest son of Slovene immigrants; he studied | 7 |
| law at DePaul University and graduated magna cum laude in 1937; | 8 |
| at DePaul he met Ruth Hendershott, who became his wife of more | 9 |
| than 60 years; after graduation, Mr. Cainkar joined a law firm, | 10 |
| where he handled insurance and personal injury cases, before | 11 |
| forming his own firm; and
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| WHEREAS, He served in the Marine Corps during World War II, | 13 |
| achieving the rank of major; in November of 1943, he fought in | 14 |
| the Battle of Tarawa, an island in the Pacific Ocean, where | 15 |
| more than 3,000 Marines lost their lives; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar founded his law firm in the newly | 17 |
| formed village of Evergreen Park in 1951; h became the village | 18 |
| attorney that year and began practicing municipal law; he | 19 |
| guided the village through the postwar population boom and the | 20 |
| development of one of the nation's first shopping malls, | 21 |
| Evergreen Plaza; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Cainkar's firm, including two of his sons, | 2 |
| became one of the more prominent municipal law firms in the | 3 |
| Southland, representing suburbs such as Hickory Hills, Alsip, | 4 |
| and Oak Lawn as well as many park and library districts and | 5 |
| Moraine Valley Community College; and
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| WHEREAS, Louis Cainkar was the son of the Slovene National | 7 |
| Benefit Society President Vincent Cainkar and his wife, the | 8 |
| late Luisa; he was the beloved husband for nearly sixty years | 9 |
| of the late Ruth (Lawler Hendershot) and the loving father of | 10 |
| Vincent (Cathy), Joseph, James (Donna), Louise (Hassan | 11 |
| Mashrah), and Michael (Toni); the beloved grandfather of | 12 |
| Joseph, Brooke, Paul, Craig, Max, Carmen, Ryan, Anwar, and | 13 |
| Walid; the dear brother of Lillian Cainkar Zasadil, Vincent and | 14 |
| Leo Cainkar, and Robert Sannemann; and the fond uncle of Donald | 15 |
| Clarke and Judy Zasadil Nelson; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 17 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 18 |
| his family and friends, the passing of Louis Cainkar; and be it | 19 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 |
| presented to the family of Louis Cainkar as a symbol of our | 22 |
| sincere sympathy.
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