Substitute Ordinance City Council
November 16,2020 Committee on Transportation & Public Way
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
Section 1. Pursuant to Section 2-8-040 of the Municipal Code of Chicago, which allows erection of honorary street name designations, the Commissioner ofthe Chicago Department of Transportation shall take the necessary action for standardization of South Hamilton Avenue, between West 92nd Street and West 93rd Street as "Honorary Phil Doran Way"
SECTION 2: This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and publication.
Matthew J. O'Shea Alderman, 19lh Ward
The Beverly Review - Sep 29,2020
Lawyer saint Doran earns title, award from kids
Chicago lost a saint on Sept. 18, when Philip A. Doran was promoted. There are lawyer saints. Philip fits right in with the best of them.
He began his legal career representing people who suffered serious injuries, and he brought their cases to court. He was beloved by juries, perhaps because his goodness just sparked their own.
In addition to their beautiful home in North Beverly, his wife, Mary, and Phil could have afforded a cottage on Galway Bay or a wee island in Italy. But, he followed a different path.
He left the law firm in the Loop, but he kept a certain principle in his heart: no overhead.
He remained a great lawyer, but his clients were all poor and lived in segregated neighborhoods such as Back of
the Yards.
Philip put his skills for negotiation into the circles where he sat with young black men and the Rev. David Kelly. In the circle, all were equal, and all respected each other and everything. These young men learned about respect and dignity, some for the first time in their lives.
Precious Blood is an oasis in the Back ofthe Yards. There, Philip helped a group of mothers who had lost their sons to violence and other women whose sons were charged with murder. Philip was a right-hand man to Fr. Kelly and accompanied him to Cook County Jail, to hospitals an...
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