City Council Meeting June 25, 2014
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, On the 30 day of June, 2014, Robert Tamillo, Associate Director of Facilities Planning for the City Colleges of Chicago, will retire after 37 years of combined service dedicated to all facets of architecture, engineering and construction within educational and hospital facilities in the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, After graduating Gordon Technical High School in 1965, he attended college at UIC to become a draftsman until he was drafted into the Army in 1968; and
WHEREAS, Robert served as a draftsman and engineer assigned to the Army Headquarters in Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, before being sent to Vietnam, where he served honorably designing defensive outposts for US Army barracks and supply depots; and
WHEREAS, Upon returning from the war in 1970, Robert started his career as a Senior Draftsman at UIC where he served for 9 years designing many ofthe early science labs and building infrastructure before moving to Rush St. Luke's Hospital to serve as an architectural engineer for 7 years where he designed the first MRI lab; and
WHEREAS, Robert married his longtime girlfriend Bonnie in August of 1979, had their first child Lauren in February of 1984, and their second child Andrea on October 8,1986, the same day he started his career with the City Colleges of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, Among Robert's many personal accomplishments he won a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 at the age of 10 on the Morris B Sachs Amateur Hour Radio Show for his singing of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, was the Chicagoland Duncan Yo-Yo Champion in 1960, the #2 ranked pool player in Chicago in 1967, the 1983 Chicago Champion 9-ball Pool Player, played a cameo role in The Color of Money in 1986 alongside Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, and to this date remains one of Chicago's top pool players; and
WHEREAS, In completing over 400 projects from design to construction for the City Colleges of Chicago, Robert has trained, educated and impressed...
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