RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, William C. Bartholomay has enjoyed longtime prominence as a Chicago business and sports figure, and our great city has long benefited from his civic-mindedness, expertise and energy; and
WHEREAS, William C. Bartholomay ably served under four Chicago mayors and for almost two decades acted as senior Commissioner and honorary Chairman of the Chicago Park District Board; and
WHEREAS, William C. Bartholomay also served as a member of the Chicago Public Building Commission and is a trustee of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Roosevelt University, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Adler Planetarium, and the Lincoln Park Zoo; and
WHEREAS, William C. Bartholomay is the Vice Chairman of Willis Group Holdings, one of the largest insurance brokers in the world, and has been the President of Near North National Group, the President and Vice Chairman of Frank B. Hall and Associates, and the Vice Chairman of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.; and
WHEREAS, William C. Bartholomay has spent more than half a century in Major League Baseball; and
WHEREAS, William C. Bartholomay served on the board of the Chicago White Sox when the team was owned by the Comiskey family; and
WHEREAS, In 1962 William C. Bartholomay and a group of investors purchased the Milwaukee Braves Major League Baseball team; and
WHEREAS, In 1966 William C. Bartholomay and his partners moved the Braves from Milwaukee to Atlanta; and
WHEREAS, William C. Bartholomay was partially motivated to relocate the Braves to Atlanta because leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King were working hard in the 1960s to help Atlanta become the leading city of the New South that would move beyond the old legacy of Jim Crow toward a new era; and
WHEREAS, On April 8, 1974, William C. Bartholomay sat in the front row alongside the mother and father of Henry "Hank" Aaron in Atlanta Stadium when "Hammerin' Hank" hit his 715th career home run to become baseball's all-time home run leader, a record t...
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