RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Honorable Daniel Pascale, a long-serving and widely admired member of the legal community, will officially retire as Counsel to the Chairman of the Chicago City Council Committee on Finance on June 1, 2018; and
WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council has been informed of this event by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, The Honorable Daniel Pascale is a former Judge and Chicago Law Department attorney who joined the Committee in 2005; and
WHEREAS, The son of Italian and French immigrants, the Honorable Daniel Pascale was raised in Racine, Wisconsin where his father was a supervisor with the local parks system; and
WHEREAS, The Honorable Daniel Pascale graduated with honors from Harvard College and first came to Chicago to attend the University of Chicago Law School; and
WHEREAS, The Honorable Daniel Pascale began his legal career when he joined the City of Chicago's Corporation Counsel's Office in 1966; and
WHEREAS, The Honorable Daniel Pascale rose through the ranks of the Law Department to become head of Appeals and First Deputy Corporation Counsel; and
WHEREAS, After leaving the Corporation Counsel's Office in 1984, the Honorable Daniel Pascale worked in private practice at Rudnick & Wolfe where he was a Partner from 1986 to 1990; and
WHEREAS, Remarkably, much of the Honorable Daniel Pascale's professional life was spent working within a one block radius of City Hall; and
WHEREAS, The Honorable Daniel Pascale served from 1990 to 1994 and from 1996 to 1998 as a Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County where he presided over bench and jury trials involving torts and contract interpretation, domestic relations, child custody and child abuse cases; and
WHEREAS, From 1995 to 1996 the Honorable Daniel Pascale managed the Illinois state court system as the Director of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts; and
WHEREAS, Under the direction of the Chief Justice, the Honorable Daniel Pascale conducted a major revision of the Su...
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