RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Marc Gaynes has retired from the City of Chicago Department of Law following 30 years of dedicated public service; and
WHEREAS, The City of Chicago has been informed of this event by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, In 1976 Marc Gaynes graduated from Northwestern University and began working as a community organizer on the West and South sides of the City of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, In 1981 Marc Gaynes graduated from the Antioch School of Law in Washington, D.C. and immediately returned to the City of Chicago to practice Law; and
WHEREAS, In 1985 Marc Gaynes joined the City of Chicago Department of Law and was appointed the special prosecutor for housing matters and a liaison between the City and community and neighborhood organizations; and
WHEREAS, Marc Gaynes prosecuted Chicago's most notorious slum lords in state and federal courts and successfully oversaw the award and collection of millions of dollars in court ordered fines, jail sentences, and the return of hundreds of buildings to the tax rolls; and
WHEREAS, Marc Gaynes initiated and prosecuted the first Civil RICO case the City of Chicago Department of Law ever filed which resulted in the award of sixteen million dollars to the City and the liquidation of the defendants' real estate holdings; and
WHEREAS, As the City's Supervising Assistant Corporation Counsel of the first Special Prosecutions Unit, Marc Gaynes prosecuted the owners of certain food processing facilities resulting in a record one hundred sixty million dollars fine levied in favor ofthe City of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, Marc Gaynes was the first to Assistant Corporation Counsel to ever successfully prosecute an entire industrial complex, a group of 18 connected buildings, as a single entity resulting in their court ordered demolition; and
WHEREAS, While still supervising Special Prosecutions, Marc Gaynes became the trial supervisor of Municipal Prosecutions and concurrently supervised Traffic Court prosecutions; a...
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