BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
Section 1. Pursuant to an ordinance passed by the City Council of the City of Chicago on the third day of December 1984, printed on page 11460, of the Journal of Proceedings of said date, which authorizes the erection of honorary street-name signs, the Commissioner of Transportation shall take the necessary action for the standardization of Chicago Avenue, at Wolcott Avenue, southeast corner, as John J. Horodecki Way.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after passage and publication.
Proco Joe Moreno Alderman, 1st Ward
John ). Horodecki Biography
John J. Horodecki lived his entire life in the Ukrainian Village Community of Chicago. John and generations of his family lived at 2032 W. Chicago Avenue. He never left the neighborhood having only moved twice in his life to 836 N. Campbell and when he got married to his wife Nancy to 2122 West Superior St. John dedicated his life to politics and public service having been part of the old 1st and 26th, Regular Democratic Ward Organizations and working for the City of Chicago, State of Illinois and Cook County Government. Most of his career was spent working for the City of Chicago as a Deputy in the Mayors' Office of Inquiry and Information and the Assistant to the Commissioner in the Department of Streets and Sanitation under Richard M. Daley.
Throughout his life John was actively involved in serving his community both politically and humanitarily. He started off as a precinct captain at age 17 for the old 26th Ward Regular Democratic Organization. As part of his political work John always made sure that his community was represented and recognized by ensuring that it had a political voice in the world of Chicago and Cook County politics and had city services equal to those received in largest communities within Chicago. John served under all four Chicago Mayors Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, Eugene Sawyer and Richard M. Daley....
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