Record #: R2022-38   
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
Intro date: 1/26/2022 Current Controlling Legislative Body:
Final action: 1/26/2022
Title: Tribute to late Richard Stone
Sponsors: Burke, Edward M.
Attachments: 1. R2022-38.pdf

RESOLUTION

 

WHEREAS, Richard "Dick" Stone has been called to eternal life by the wisdom of God at the age of 80; and

 

WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council has been informed of his passing by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and

 

WHEREAS, Dick was husband of Fran (Spielman) Stone, father of Jason and the late Craig Stone, and is survived by other family and friends; and •

 

WHEREAS, He grew up Richard Kahn on the West Side of Chicago where he lived with his grandparents; and

 

WHEREAS, Dick attended Amundsen High School and worked as a short-order cook, which helped him develop gourmet cooking skills; and

 

WHEREAS, After his mother remarried and the family moved north, Dick took on his stepfather's surname, Dick Stone and graduated from Highland Park High School; and

 

WHEREAS, Dick graduated from the University of Illinois campus at Navy Pier before joining the City News Bureau of Chicago; and

 

WHEREAS, After working at the City News Bureau of Chicago, Dick was one ofthe youngest foreign correspondents hired by the United Press International ("UPI"); and

 

WHEREAS, In 1966, he worked in Japan where he took dispatches from Vietnam and reported on two major airline disasters within 24 hours. As UPI Bureau Chief in Jakarta of that same year Dick scored a 24-hour scoop on the world when Indonesian President Sukarno was deposed; and

 

WHEREAS, After returning to the U.S., he worked for KYW Radio in Philadelphia and covered both 1968 political conventions and the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy; and

 

WHEREAS, In 1975, as WIND Radio's City Hall reporter he landed a rare 30-minute sit-down interview with Mayor Richard J. Daley; and

 

WHEREAS, While at WIND, Dick met Fran Spielman and assigned her to replace him as City Hall reporter. In 1984, they were joined in marriage; and

 

WHEREAS, Dick rose to be News Director of WIND Radio and helped build a news team at WCFL Radio before becoming a media strategist who advised politicians, law firms and Fortune 500 companies; and

 

 

WHEREAS, To his beloved family, Richard Stone imparts a legacy of faithfulness, service and dignity; now, therefore

 

BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members ofthe Chicago City Council, assembled this twenty-sixth day of January, 2022, do hereby commemorate Richard Stone for his grace-filled life and do hereby express our condolences to his family; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the family of Richard Stone.

M.Burke Alderman, 14th Ward