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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, It has come to our attention that Selig and
3 Miriam Spun will be honored at the 104th Annual Dinner to be
4 given by Congregation Bnei Ruven on June 14, 2000 at the
5 Hyatt Regency in Chicago; and
6 WHEREAS, Mr. and Mrs. Spun have been pillars of the
7 Chicago Jewish Community for forty years; they were both born
8 in Poland and are survivors of the Holocaust; and
9 WHEREAS, They came to the United States in 1947 and met
10 ten years later in New York, where they married; they settled
11 in Chicago and have two children, Naftali and Aliza; and
12 WHEREAS, In 1961, they opened the first strictly kosher
13 supermarket on Chicago's Devon Avenue, staying in the kosher
14 business since that time; in 1971, they sold the store and
15 moved to Israel, where they lived for nine years; and
16 WHEREAS, After their return in 1982, they opened Selig's
17 Kosher Deli in Highland Park; sixteen years later they closed
18 it and joined their son-in-law, Ron Lipson, at Brooklyn
19 Market in Buffalo Grove; and
20 WHEREAS, Mr. and Mrs. Spun have engaged in numerous
21 community activities and have earned the respect of all who
22 know them; therefore, be it
23 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
24 NINETY-FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
25 we congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Selig Spun on the honor being
26 paid them at the Annual Dinner of Congregation Bnei Ruven and
27 applaud the many works they have done for their community;
28 and be it further
29 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
30 presented to Selig and Miriam Spun.