ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to an ordinance heretofore passed by the City Council, which allows for the erection of honorary street-name signs, the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation shall take all necessary action for the standardization of West 110th Street between South Racine Avenue and South Throop Street as "Pastor Eugene Olison Way".
Carrie M. Austin Alderman, 34th Ward
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and publication.
PASTOR EUGENE O LIS ON
Pastor Eugene Olison: pastor, teacher, philanthropist, husband, father, citizen, and friend. Those that have been graced with his presence in any capacity knew him to have embodied of one of his many aforementioned roles with the humility and grace of a true humanitarian. His life was dedicated to restructuring the lost ideals that surround the family while incorporating Godly principles. His belief and teachings superseded the boundaries of bloodlines—giving no preference to race, ethnicity, creed, religious belief or denomination. He believed and taught that if we are to be productive in any facet of society, the familial structure must be maintained. While his audience was broad, he ministered this message from the pulpit in a community ravished with violence, fatherless homes, homelessness, poverty and hopelessness. Pastor Eugene Olison's devotion to ministry of the Bible was life changing; there was nothing to be added or taken away from it. Period. The covering of his family came second only to his homage to God and showing God's people the path to Hope that the Bible speaks about, it became his life's work.
Pastor Eugene Olison was born in Mississippi on August 20,1948 to a slave and a servant in the United States Armed Forces. His father drowned when he was only 2 years old. At a very young age, he relocated to Chicago, Illinois with his mother and only sister. He was educated through the public school sy...
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