CITY HALL - ROOM 300 121 N. LASALLE STREET
CHICAGO, IL 60602 PHONE: 312-744-6860 WARD48@CITYOFCHICAGO.ORG
HARRY OSTERMAN 48TH WARD
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE
January 18, 2023
TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL:
Your Committee on Housing and Real Estate, for which a virtual meeting was held on January 10, : 2023, was referred an Ordinance from the Department of Planning and Development for the call for the placement of a plaque honoring Marion Jean Kennedy Volini at 5708 N. Ridge Ave.
(02022-3984)
Having the same under advisement, begs leave to report and recommend that Your Honorable Body, Pass the proposed communication transmitted herewith.
The recommendation was Passed by the same roll call as was used to determine quorum in Committee.
Harry Osterman Chairman, Committee on Housing and Real Estate
Sincerely,
SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, It is appropriate to remember those who have, through life's dedication and service, enriched and improved the City of Chicago by honoring them in a way where others may be touched by their example; and 1
WHEREAS, Marion Jean Kennedy Volini did lead by example and enriched the City of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, She was born, raised, and lived her life here in Chicago as she attended Saint Rita parish church and grammar school, Saint Casmir High School, and Mundelein j College, married Camillo F. Volini, and together raised five children in the Lakewood-Balmoral neighborhood; and
WHEREAS, Marion represented Saint Ita Church on the Board of Directors of the Edgewater-Uptown Mental Health Center, where the board worked to obtain the much-needed resources to help the patients discharged from state psychiatric hospitals that were residinglin Edgewater, and maintained watchful oversight of the landlords housing those former patients; and
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WHEREAS, Marion encouraged communities to find their voice and advocate for themselves, which she did when she helped ...
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