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>> THE COUNCIL WILL COME TO ORDER. THE
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CLERK WILL CALL THE ROLL.
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CITY CLERK: ALDERMAN MORENO, FIORETTI,
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DOWELL, BURNS, HERE, HAIRSTON,
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HERE, SAWYER, HERE, HOMES, HARRIS,
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BEALE, ALDERMAN POPE, ALDERMAN
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BALCER, ALDERMAN CARDENAS, ALDERMAN
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QUINN, ALDERMAN BURKE, ALDERMAN
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FOULKES, ALDERMAN THOMAS, ALDERMAN LANE,
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ALDERMAN O'SHEA, OVERRULED
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COCHRAN, ALDERMAN BROOKINS, ALDERMAN
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MUNOZ, ALDERMAN ZALEWSKI,
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ALDERMAN CHANDLER, ALDERMAN SOLIS,
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ALDERMAN MALDONADO, ALDERMAN
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BURNT. ALDERMAN EIR ERVIN, ALDERMAN
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GRAHAM, ALDERMAN REBOYRAS,
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ALDERMAN SUAREZ, ALDERMAN WAGUESPACK,
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ALDERMAN MEDICAL, ALDERMAN
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AUSTIN, ALDERMAN COLON, ALDERMAN
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SPOSATO, MITTS, CULLERTON, LAURINO,
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PATRICK O'CONNOR, MARY O'CONNOR, RILEY,
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SMITH, TUNNEY, ARENA
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CAPULMAN, PAWAR, OSTERMAN, MOORE,
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SILVERSTEIN. WE HAVE A QUORUM.
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>> PLEASE RISE FOR THE JUNIOR ROTC AND
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REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE.
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>> COLOR GUARD. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO
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THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES
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OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH
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IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER
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GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND
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JUSTICE FOR ALL.
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>>
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>> COLOR GUARD, RETIRE THE COLORS.
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>> ALSO, FOR THE AUDIENCE, TO LET THEM
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KNOW THAT. I HOPE I'M
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PRONOUNCING THEM RIGHT. JEROME MARIATA,
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A DECORATED SERVICEMAN WHO
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SERVED IN THE MARINE CORP WORLD WAR II
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LED US IN THE PLEDGE OF
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ALLEGIANCE.
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[ APPLAUSE ]
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IF EVERYBODY COULD PLEASE REMAIN
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STANDING AND THE INVOCATION BE
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DELIVERED BY THE REVEREND OF THE
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MONUMENT OF FAITH.
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>> SHALL WE BOW OUR HEADS? ETERNAL GOD
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IN YOUR MOST HOLY NAME, I
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LIFT UP THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL
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TO YOU ON THIS DAY. I KNOW
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THAT OUR LEADERS HEART IS IN YOUR HANDS
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AND IN YOUR HANDS ALONE. I
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ASK YOU TO GUIDE THE HEAD OF OUR GREAT
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CITY IN A WAY THAT YOU WOULD
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HAVE HIM TO GO. LORD, I PRAY THAT YOU
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WOULD SURROUND HIM WITH WISE
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COUNCILMAN AS WELL AS WOMEN OF ALL MORAL
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INTEGRITY WHO WILL PLACE
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YOUR AGENDA AND THE GOOD OF THIS GREAT
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CITY OF CHICAGO ABOVE THEIR
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OWNS AND THE MOMENT WHICH IS RIGHT.
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FATHER, I PRAY THAT YOU WILL GIVE
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OUR LEADERS DISCERNMENT, UNDERSTANDING
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AND KNOWLEDGE SO OUR CITIZENS
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KNOW STABILITY ETERNITY AS WELL AS
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ABROAD. I GIVE YOU THANKS FOR OUR
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MAYOR AND OFFICIALS ACCORDING TO YOUR
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MOST HOLY WORD AND THANK YOU
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FOR WORKING IN AND THROUGH THIS COUNCIL
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AND IT'S LEADERS SO THEY LEAD
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PEACEABLE LIVES IN ALL GODLINESS AND
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HONESTY. IN YOUR PRECIOUS NAME
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WE DO PRAY. AMEN.
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>> AMEN.
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>> RESOLUTIONS?
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CITY CLERK: A RESOLUTION FROM HIS HONOR
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THE MAYOR. WHERE AS THE
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MEMBERS OF THIS CHAMBER WERE DEEPLY
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SADDENED TO LEARN OF THE DEATH OF
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DECEMBER 22, 2014, AT AGE 87 OF OUR
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FORMER COLLEAGUE ALDERMAN BERNARD
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STONE OF THE 50TH WARD. HE SERVED THE
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WARD WITH DEDICATION AND
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DISTINCTION FOR 38 YEARS. A REMARKABLE
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LONGEVITY. WHERE HE WAS BORN
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IN CHICAGO'S 50TH WARD. BERNARD MET HIS
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WIFE ELOISE ON A 1 DAY PASS
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FROM THE UNITED STATES ARMY. THE HAPPY
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COUPLE WAS MARRIED FOR 46
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YEARS UNLESS HIS PASSING OF 1995.
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ALDERMAN STONE GRADUATED FROM
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WRIGHT COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND JOHN
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MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL. A PRACTICING
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ATTORNEY FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS.
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ALDERMAN MAN STONE PRACTICED IN REAL
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ESTATE LAW AND WAS COUNTY SHERIFF. HE
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WAS ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL IN
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1973 AND WENT ON TO SERVE NINE FULL
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TERMS IN OFFICE. HE LEFT OFFICE
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IN 2011. WHERE ALDERMAN STONE WAS AN
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ACTIVE MEMBER ON COUNCIL AND
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COMMITTEES ON COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS,
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GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS,
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COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND COMMITTEE ON
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HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE AND
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TRAFFIC CONTROL SAFETY AND COMMITTEES OR
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RULES AND ETHICS. FROM
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1983-2011 ALSO SERVED AS THE VICE-MAYOR
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OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO. HE
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ALSO BELIEVED THE ROLE OF ALDERMAN MAN
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DID NOT STOP AT THE DOORS OF
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THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER WHERE HE MADE
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IT A DAILY EVENT TO
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PARTICIPATE IN LOCAL CONSTITUENTS AND
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ATTENDED LOCALIZED MEETINGS AND
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MAINTAINED A FULLY STAFFED FULL SERVICE
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WARD OFFICE AND DROPPED IN
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OFFICE HOURS EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
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EVENING TO ACCOMMODATE THE
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RESIDUE RESIDENTS OF HIS COMMUNITY. HE
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ENCOURAGED THE DIVERSE
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CULTURAL GROUPS TO ORGANIZE IN CITY
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GOVERNMENT AND WHERE BY HE
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BROUGHT TALENT AND BEAUTY TO THE
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ECONOMIC WARD AND THE INTENT TO
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IMPROVE HIS WARD IS STILL EVIDENT. HE
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DID NOT ONLY ENCOURAGE THE
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DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL BUSINESS BUT
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REVITALIZE DEVON AVENUE HELPING IT
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TO BE WHAT IT IS TODAY THE 50TH WARD
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SUSTAINED DRAMATIC INCREASES IN
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THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELL BEING.
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ALDERMAN STONE WAS PROUD TO
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DECREASE THE CLASSES OF CLASSROOMS IN
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SCHOOLS AND PERSUADE CITY
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OFFICIALS TO PLACE POLICE CAMERAS AT
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TROUBLED LOCATIONS IN THE
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COMMUNITY AND TO AFFORD COMMUNITY
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HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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AND HE GAVE TO OUR CITY BEFORE AND AFTER
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RETIREMENT FROM PUBLIC
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SERVICE, HE WAS THE ALUMNI OF THE
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AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN
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LEGION, JEWISH WARD SOCIETY, CHAMBER OF
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COMMERCE AND YMCA,
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CONGREGATION AND MUSEUM AND WITH AS FUN
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LOVING PERSON WHO EAGERLY
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EMBRACED NEW CHALLENGES. ALDERMAN MAN
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STONE TOOK ACTING LESSONS AND
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AGE 68 HE PARTICIPATED IN THE COMEDIES
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THREE SISTERS. AT THE
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CHICAGO'S GREENHOUSE THEATRE ON NORTH
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LINCOLN AVENUE AND IN 5,000
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FILMS AND WITH STRONG SENSE OF FAIRNESS
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AND PASSION FOR JUSTICE.
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ALDERMAN MAN STONE WILL ALWAYS BE
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REMEMBERED AS AN EXEMPLARY PUBLIC
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SERVANT AND DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF
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CHICAGO. HE'S LEFT BY HIS SON AND
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DAUGHTER AND SISTER AND SEVEN
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GRANDCHILDREN. THAT BE IT RESOLVED THAT
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WE ASSEMBLE THIS DAY TO LIGHT THE LIFE
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OF ALDERMAN BERNARD STONE TO
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BE PRESENTED TO HIS FAMILY AS A TONE OF
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OUR APPRECIATION AND --
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ESTEEM
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>> ALDERMAN BURKE?
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>> YOUR HONOR, I ASK THAT YOU HOLD THIS
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FOR CONSIDERATION. YOUR
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HONOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL IT IS REGRET
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THAT I ANNOUNCE THE PASSING
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OF ALDERMAN STONE. I AM PROUD TO SAY
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THAT I SERVED ALONGSIDE BERNIE
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FOR 38 YEARS IN THIS CITY COUNCIL, AND I
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KNOW THAT EVERYONE WHO HAD
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THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH HIM LEARNED
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FROM HIS PROFOUND SENSE OF
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COMMITMENT TO HIS CONSTITUENTS AND
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INDEED TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT
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METROPOLIS. BERNIE WAS A GREAT MAN IN
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HIS GENERATION AND A WORLD WAR
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II VETERAN. IN FACT HE WAS THE LAST
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MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO CITY
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COUNCIL TO HAVE SERVED IN THE ARMED
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FORCES DURING WORLD WAR II. HE
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WAS A PATRIOT AND A PROMINENT MEMBER OF
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CHICAGO'S JEWISH COMMUNITY IN
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WHICH HE TOOK SUCH GREAT PRIDE. BERNIE
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DIDN'T MINCE WORDS.
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CONGRESSMAN GUTIERREZ CAN AT TEST TO
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THAT AND HE WAS LOYAL TO A
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FAULT. IF YOU ARE HIS FRIEND, YOU ARE
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HIS FRIEND UNTIL THE VERY END.
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HE KNEW THE STATE LAW LIKE THE BACK OF
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HIS HANDS AND HE WENT TO
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PROTECT THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THIS CITY
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AND INSPIRED LEGISLATION TO
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CONVERSIONS OF CONDOMINIUMS AND
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MANDATING THAT PEOPLE RENTING
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APARTMENTS WOULD BE ENTITLED TO A
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COMFORTABLE TEMPERATURE OVER NIGHT
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AND THE UNDERDOG IN THE TROUST SENSE OF
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THE WORD. SO THIS MORNING,
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PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO JOIN THE MAYOR AND
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OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CITY
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COUNCIL AND EXTEND TO BERNIE'S FAMILY
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OUR SUPPORT AND OUR PRAYERS.
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IT WAS A DIFFERENT TIME WHEN BERNIE
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SERVED HERE. IT WAS MORE LIKE A
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FAMILY IN THE CITY COUNCIL. HE AND
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FREDDY ROADEY WERE INSEPARABLE
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WITH THEIR WIVES THEY TRAVELED THE WORLD
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AND ENJOYED ONE ANOTHER'S
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COMPANY. I REMEMBER WHEN LOIS, BERNIE'S
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WIFE TOOK ILL AND YOUR MOM
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WAS IN THE HOSPITAL, AND THERE WAS A
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LINE OF US WENT OVER AND DONATED
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BLOOD TO LOIS WHEN SHE WAS SO VERY VERY
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ILL. SO ON A CERTAIN SENSE I
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FEEL THAT MY BLOOD RUNS IN THE STONE
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FAMILY. WHAT A WONDERFUL MAN
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YOUR DAD WAS. HOW GRACIOUS AND LOYAL AND
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DETERMINED HE WAS. MAY HE
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REST IN PEACE AND MAY NOW GOD GIVE HIM
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THE REWARD OF ETERNAL LIFE.
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THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
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>> ALDERMAN SILVERSTEIN?
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>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, I STAND IN
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ORDER OF THIS RESOLUTION.
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ALDERMAN WAS IN THE WARD FOR 50 YEARS.
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HE CARED ABOUT THE WARD AND
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THE HISTORY OF CHICAGO AND HIS FAMILY.
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MY HEART AND MY PRAYERS GO OUT
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TO THE FAMILY. MY SYMPATHIES ARE WITH
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YOU.
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>> ALDERMAN SUAREZ?
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>> MR. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE CITY
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COUNCIL, I TOO RISE TO BE
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ASSOCIATED WITH THIS RESOLUTION. THIS
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RESOLUTION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
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ALDERMAN STONE, IN MY OPINION WAS ONE OF
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THE NICEST, KINDEST AND TRUE
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PROFESSIONAL TO SERVE ON THE CITY
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COUNCIL. IF YOU WERE BERNIE'S
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FRIEND, YOU KNEW YOU WERE HIS FRIEND. HE
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WOULD NEVER NEVER TURN HIS
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BACK ON YOU. IT'S SAD TO SEE THAT
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EVERYTHING HAS TO COME TO AN END.
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BUT AS A FAMILY, YOU MUST BE VERY PROUD
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OF YOUR FATHER, A GREAT MAN.
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A GREAT LEADER. A MAN THAT BELIEVED IN
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SERVING THE CITY OF CHICAGO
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AND THIS COUNCIL AND THIS MAN-MADE SURE
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THAT WHEN WE WERE IN ZONING
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THIS WEREN'T MANY PEOPLE THAT COULD
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STAND AND ARGUE ZONING CODE WHEN
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BERNIE WAS ON THE FLOOR. ON BEHALF OF
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MYSELF, MY FAMILY AND THE
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MEMBERS OF THIS CITY COUNCIL, MY
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SYMPATHIES.
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>> ALDERMAN?
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>> IT WAS A PLEASURE TO SERVE WITH YOUR
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FATHER. AS A CONSTITUENT WE
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SPOKE MANY TIMES AND I APPRECIATE YOUR
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INPUT AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOUR
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FATHER'S HISTORY. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T
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REALIZE HOW MUCH A WEALTH OF
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KNOWLEDGE HE WAS. ALDERMAN SUAREZ
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MENTIONED ABOUT THE ZONING AND THE
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ZONING CODE, BUT WHEN WE WERE IN HOUSING
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COMMUNITY AND TALKING ABOUT
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A PARTICULAR PROPERTY, YOUR FATHER NO
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MATTER WHERE IT WAS IN THE CITY
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COULD PULL OUT A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND
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HISTORY ABOUT A PARTICULAR
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PROPERTY IN ANY PART OF THE CITY AND
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WOULD START TALKING ABOUT THAT
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LOT OR BUILDING OR THE HISTORY OF IT
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GOING BACK DECADES. THAT WAS
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ALWAYS INCREDIBLE FOR US AS NEW MEMBERS
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OF THE COUNCIL WHEN I SERVED
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WITH HIM TO HAVE THAT ABILITY TO KNOW
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WHAT HISTORY OF CHICAGO WAS
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BEHIND EVERYTHING THAT CAME UP, NOT JUST
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IN THAT COMMITTEE BUT OTHER
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THINGS THAT CAME ABOUT ON THE FLOOR. HE
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NEVER PULLED ANY PUNCHES. HE
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IS ALWAYS DIRECT AND HONEST WITH ME AND
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MANY OF OUR NEW MEMBERS AND
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LETTING US HOW THINGS WORK AND SHOULD
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WORK OVER THE LAST DECADES. IT
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WAS AN HONOR TO SERVE WITH HIM, MY
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CONDOLENCES TO YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY
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ON BEHALF OF THE 42ND WARD.
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>> ALDERMAN MITTS?
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>> THANK YOU, I TOO RISE IN SUPPORT OF
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THIS RESOLUTION. I EXTEND MY
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CONDOLENCES ON BEHALF OF THE 32ND WARD.
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I REMEMBER COUNCILMAN STONE
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AT CITY COUNCIL. WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY
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TO GO TO WASHINGTON D.C..
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YES, MA'AM, HE GOT A NAME AND I HAVE GOT
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TO TELL YOU IT WAS VERY
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ENLIGHTENING. HE WAS A HAND SOME YOUNG
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MAN BECAUSE HE PICKED UP A
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YOUNG LADY. LADY OF THE NIGHT CAME UP TO
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HIM.
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>> WE HAVE CHILDREN HERE, EMMA. GO SLOW.
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>> HIS NAME IS BIG DADDY. HE SAID, HEY,
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BIG DADDY.
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>> THIS IS A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CITY
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COUNCIL.
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>> HEY, BIG DADDY, HOW ABOUT ME AND YOU
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GOING OUT? HE SAID THERE IS
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NOTHING YOU CAN DO WITH ME. SHE SAID
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IT'S OKAY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO
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ANYTHING.
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>> EMMA, LET'S LEAVE IT THERE.
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>> I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT THERE.
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>> ALDERMAN BURKE SAID HE WANTED TO REST
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IN PEACE.
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>>
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[ LAUGHTER ]
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>> HE TOLD ME HE WAS. THERE WAS A
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RESOLUTION I WAS TRYING TO GET IN
00:21:41
ON THE SAGGY PANTS. HE SAYS EMMA, I SAID
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I NEED YOUR SUPPORT. HE
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SAYS, I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THOSE
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PANTS HANGING DOWN. HE WAS VERY
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DIRECT, VERY STRAIGHT FORWARD AND I
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APPRECIATED HIM FOR THAT AS BEING
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SENIOR ALDERMAN IN THE COUNCIL. HE GAVE
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US LAUGHS AS WELL AS THE
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WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE THAT HE HAD. SO ON
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BEHALF OF THE 37TH WARD, WE
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WILL TRULY MISS HIM AND I APPRECIATE YOU
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ALL LENDING HIM TO US THIS
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TIME SO WE CAN ENJOY AS WE WORK AT THE
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SAME TIME. THANK YOU.
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>> FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO A
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JEWISH FUNERAL, THOSE STORIES
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ARE RESERVED FOR SHIVA, NOT CITY
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COUNCIL.
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ALDERMAN MOORE?
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>> THANK YOU, I TOO RISE IN SUPPORT OF
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THIS RESOLUTION. ALDERMAN
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STONE WAS MY NEIGHBOR IN THE CITY
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COUNCIL. ON MY LEFT. IT WAS THE
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ONLY TIME HE WAS ON MY LEFT. ALSO WAS MY
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NEIGHBOR BACK IN THE NORTH
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SIDE OF CHICAGO ON THE 50TH WARD WHICH
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SHARES A 49 WARD BORDER. WHEN
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I GOT ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL IN 1991,
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ALDERMAN STONE HAD ALREADY
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BEEN ON THE COUNCIL FOR 20 YEARS. FOR
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THE NEXT 20 YEARS HE AND I SAT
00:23:16
HERE IN THE CORNER AND JOKED A LOT AND
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BEMOANED THE FACT THAT FOR
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WHATEVER REASON MAYOR DALY DIDN'T CALL
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ON US AS WE RAISED OUR HAND.
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THIS MAN A LITTLE BIT BETTER, BUT SOME
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CHALLENGES AS WELL.
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>> MAYBE IT'S ABOUT THE CORNER?
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>> MAYBE WHO IS IN THE CORNER, I DON'T
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KNOW. BUT HE WAS AN ABSOLUTE
00:23:41
DELIGHT AND HE WAS THE SAME AGE AS MY
00:23:42
FATHER. THEY WERE BOTH BORN IN
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1927 AND BOTH SERVED THE MILITARY IN
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WORLD WAR II. WHEN MY FATHER
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PASSED AWAY IN 2001, ALDERMAN STONE WAS
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VERY COMFORTING AND SHARED
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WITH ME A LOT OF REMEMBRANCES FROM HIS
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PERIOD IN THE WAR AND SIMILAR
00:24:08
ONES THAT I REMEMBER MY FATHER SHARING
00:24:09
WITH ME. WHILE WE DIDN'T
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ALWAYS SEE EYE TO EYE, I HAD A
00:24:14
TREMENDOUS RESPECT FOR HIM AND I WILL
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SURELY MISS HIM. MY CONDOLENCES TO ALL
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OF YOU.
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>> ALDERMAN THOMAS?
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>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, I TOO RISE
00:24:36
TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
00:24:39
RESOLUTION. MY HEART WAS TRULY MADE
00:24:40
HEAVY WITH THE TRANSITION OF
00:24:44
ALDERMAN STONE. IT HAS TRULY BEEN AN
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HONOR TO SERVE WITH HIM. HE WAS
00:24:52
A GOOD PARLIAMENTARIAN AND GAVE ME SOME
00:24:53
POINTERS ON WHAT TO LOOK AT.
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IT WAS ALSO, I HAD FUN CONVERSATIONS, A
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LOT OF US HAD FUN
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CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE NEW MOVIE COMING
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OUT. HE MADE SURE THAT WE
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HAD SEEING THEM. HE MADE SURE THAT WE
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COULD SEE THE NEWEST MOVIES OUT
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ON THE SCENE. HE GAVE GREAT STAGE OF
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ADVICE AND TOLD IT TO YOU LIKE
00:25:26
IT WAS WHETHER YOU WANTED TO HEAR IT OR
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NOT. BERNIE WAS A TEACHER, HE
00:25:31
HAD KNOWLEDGE THAT HE IMPARTED IN ALL OF
00:25:32
US. FOR THE STONE FAMILY, I
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WISH YOU TOO WILL FIND PEACE IN THE
00:25:37
KNOWLEDGE OF HIS LIFE AND HOW HE
00:25:41
SHARED IT. FILL YOUR THOUGHTS WITH THE
00:25:42
MEMORIES OF HIM, HIS
00:25:47
INTEGRITY, HIS INTERSECTION, HIS
00:25:48
GOODWILL AND FROM THE THOMAS FAMILY
00:25:52
AND THE 17TH WARD COMMUNITY, WE PRAY FOR
00:25:53
YOUR PEACE OF MIND. THANK
00:25:59
YOU, MR. PRESIDENT.
00:26:00
>> ALDERMAN CULLERTON?
00:26:02
>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, I RISE IN
00:26:03
SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION. IT
00:26:06
AN HONOR. I MET ALDERMAN STONE WHEN HE
00:26:07
TOOK OFFICE WITH MY FATHER TOM
00:26:13
CULLERTON IN '73.
00:26:14
IN MY CAPACITY WITH THE BILLING
00:26:15
DEPARTMENT HE WAS A TREMENDOUS HELP
00:26:17
WITH THE BILLING DEPARTMENT AND THE
00:26:18
PEOPLE OF CHICAGO IN HIS
00:26:20
UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE
00:26:21
STRONG SAFETY CODES AND BUILDING
00:26:24
CODES. HE WAS A TREMENDOUS FRIEND TO
00:26:25
LABOR IN CHICAGO AND I ALSO
00:26:30
REMEMBER FINALLY THE YEARS I SERVED AS
00:26:31
CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR
00:26:35
WITH HIS DAUGHTER ROBIN WHOS A TRAINING
00:26:36
OFFICER WITH THE DEPARTMENT
00:26:39
OF BUILDINGS. THE STONE FAMILY HAS
00:26:40
CONTRIBUTED MUCH TO THE CITY OF
00:26:47
CHICAGO AND THE WELFARE. THERE ARE
00:26:48
PEOPLE WALKING AROUND SAFE TODAY
00:26:52
BECAUSE OF THE CODES AND SAFETY HE
00:26:53
ADOPTED. I MISS HIM AND WISH THE
00:27:00
FAMILY WELL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:27:02
>> ALDERMAN LAURINO?
00:27:04
>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, I TOO RISE
00:27:05
IN SUPPORT OF THIS
00:27:07
RESOLUTION. ALDERMAN STONE WAS MY
00:27:08
NEIGHBORING, HE REPRESENTED THE
00:27:11
NEIGHBORING WARD. I ALWAYS WAS ABLE TO
00:27:12
GO TO HIM FOR ADVICE. ACTUALLY
00:27:15
THE LAST TIME I SAW HIM UNFORTUNATELY
00:27:16
WERE AT THE SERVICES OF ROBIN
00:27:20
OF WHO WE MISS DEARLY ALSO. I WANT TO
00:27:21
SAY THAT I THINK THAT ALDERMAN
00:27:27
STONE CARRIED THE BUILDING CODE RIGHT IN
00:27:28
HIS HEAD AND HE COULD CITE
00:27:33
ANY NUMBER OF ORDINANCES FOR US AND WE
00:27:34
REALLY RELIED ON HIM FOR THAT.
00:27:38
I THINK ONE OF HIS PROUDEST MOMENTS ALSO
00:27:39
I WILL JUST SHARE WITH YOU
00:27:45
WHEN HE AND ALDERMAN HARRIS, HAD A SMALL
00:27:46
ROLE AT THE SHAKESPEARE
00:27:54
THEATRE AND HE ENJOYED THAT AND SHARED
00:27:55
WITH EACH AND EVERYONE OF US.
00:27:59
I WANT TO MAKE SURE I EXTEND MY DEEPEST
00:28:00
SYMPATHY.
00:28:06
>> ALDERMAN PAT O'CONNOR?
00:28:09
>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. I TOO RISE
00:28:10
IN SUPPORT OF THIS
00:28:15
RESOLUTION. I MET BERNIE IN HIGH SCHOOL.
00:28:16
BERNIE AND MY DAD WOULD
00:28:24
WATCH ME AFTER FOOTBALL GAMES AND MY
00:28:25
FATHER INTRODUCED ME TO BERNIE.
00:28:30
LATER ON WHEN I WAS THE PRIVILEGE OF
00:28:31
BEING ELECTED TO THE WARD, I GOT
00:28:38
TO WORK WITH HIM AS OUR WARD SHARED A
00:28:39
SIGNIFICANTLY LONG NORTHERN
00:28:43
BOUNDARY. WHEN I FIRST JOINED THE
00:28:44
COUNCIL THERE WERE SEVERAL MEMBERS
00:28:48
WHO WERE UNBELIEVABLY GOOD
00:28:49
PARLIAMENTARIANS. THEY WERE ABLE TO
00:28:50
GUIDE
00:28:56
THE DEBATE, SHAPE THE DEBATE BY THE
00:28:57
KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO USE THE
00:29:01
COUNCIL RULES AND BERNIE WAS ONE OF
00:29:02
THOSE PEOPLE. HE WAS A GREAT
00:29:05
FRIEND WHEN HE WAS YOUR FRIEND, HE WAS A
00:29:06
FIERCE OPPONENT WHEN HE WAS
00:29:15
YOUR OPPONENT. HE NEVER BACKED DOWN FROM
00:29:16
SOMETHING HE THOUGHT WHEN IT
00:29:19
WAS RIGHT BUT HE SUPPORTED OTHERS WHEN
00:29:20
HE FOUND OUT HE WASN'T RIGHT
00:29:23
ALL THE TIME. I ENJOYED WORKING WITH
00:29:24
BERNIE. I WAS WITH ONE OF MY
00:29:31
CLASSMATES LAST NIGHT WHO WAS ALSO A
00:29:32
CLASSMATE OF ROBIN'S AT HIS
00:29:38
SISTER'S SHIVA AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT
00:29:39
TO THE THAT WE WERE GOING TO
00:29:44
HAVE THIS HONOR FOR ALDERMAN STONE. JEFF
00:29:45
PALMER TOLD ME A FEW STORIES
00:29:52
ABOUT BERNIE AND ROBIN WHEN THEY WERE
00:29:53
YOUNGER AND IT WAS A GREAT
00:29:56
REMEMBRANCE. BERNIE WAS A REMARKABLE
00:29:57
ALDERMAN, AND HE WORKED HARD TO
00:30:02
REPRESENT HIS COMMUNITY AND I HOPE THAT
00:30:03
I WILL BE SEEN AS EFFECTIVE
00:30:10
AS I SEE HIM WHEN I PULL THE PLUG HERE.
00:30:11
THANK YOU.
00:30:19
>> ALDERMAN BURNETT?
00:30:20
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I WOULD LIKE TO
00:30:21
STAND IN SUPPORT AND MY
00:30:25
RESOLUTION. HE WAS A MIX TO A LOT OF
00:30:34
FOLKS. HE DIDN'T TOLERATE A LOT.
00:30:40
HE ALWAYS SAID WHAT HE FELT, BUT HE DID
00:30:41
HAVE ANOTHER SIDE TO HIM
00:30:44
WHICH HE DID HAVE A LOT OF TOLERANCE AND
00:30:45
THAT WAS FOR MY GOOD FRIEND
00:30:53
BERT THE TERRACE AND HE WAS A GOOD
00:30:54
FRIEND AND ONE OF THE FEW GUYS IN
00:31:00
THE CITY COUNCIL WHO TOLERATED BURT AS
00:31:01
ANYONE ELSE. YEARS AGO I WAS A
00:31:10
DEMOCRAT IN THE COUNTY IN THE 90s AND
00:31:11
BERNIE ALLOWED ME TO GET TWO
00:31:17
YOUNG PEOPLEN MY TEAM WHICH WERE THE
00:31:18
STEIN BROTHERS WHO ARE DOING
00:31:23
VERY WELL RIGHT NOW AND STILL KIND OF
00:31:24
WITH ME. WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN LIKE
00:31:29
FAMILY, MYSELF COMING FROM THE 42ND WARD
00:31:30
WITH BURT, TERRACE AT THAT
00:31:37
TIME AND BERNIE AND ALL OF THOSE GUYS.
00:31:38
BERNIE IS GOING TO BE
00:31:41
REMEMBERED WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT CITY
00:31:42
COUNCIL, YOU THINK ABOUT BERNIE
00:31:47
STONE. YOU ALL SHOULD BE PROUD WITH THE
00:31:48
LEGACY THAT HE HAS LEFT YOUR
00:31:52
FAMILY. HE'S ONE OF THE SMARTEST GUYS IN
00:31:53
THE CITY COUNCIL. WE ARE
00:31:57
TRULY GOING TO MISS HIM AND ONE TIME I
00:31:58
HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, I WAS IN
00:32:03
THE ORGANIZATION CALLED THE AMERICAN
00:32:04
COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL
00:32:08
LEADERS WHICH IS SPONSORED BY THE U.S.
00:32:09
STATE DEPARTMENT AND HE ASKED
00:32:15
ME TO SPONSOR SOME YOUNG PALESTINIANS
00:32:16
COMING TO THE CITY OF CHICAGO
00:32:22
AND OF COURSE I TALKED TO MY JEWISH
00:32:23
FRIENDS AND ONE WAS BERNIE AND
00:32:29
BERT THE TERRACE AND HE SAID YEAH, LET
00:32:30
ME CHECK IT OUT AND HE
00:32:36
ACTUALLY HOSTED AN EVENT FOR THE YOUNG
00:32:37
PALESTINIAN WHICH WAS VERY
00:32:41
NICE OF HIM. AND HE WAS VERY OPEN TO ALL
00:32:42
NATIONALITIES, HELPED SO
00:32:47
MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF
00:32:48
CHICAGO, BUT HE WAS ALSO VERY
00:32:53
STRONG ABOUT HIS BELIEF AND HIS
00:32:54
HERITAGE. AND HIM STANDING UP FOR HIS
00:33:01
BELIEF IN HIS HERITAGE ACTUALLY INSPIRED
00:33:02
A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE IN THE
00:33:05
CITY OF CHICAGO TO BE ABLE TO STAND UP
00:33:06
FOR THEIR BELIEF AND THEIR
00:33:09
HERITAGE. I JUST WANT TO SAY TO THE
00:33:10
FAMILY, THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH
00:33:12
FOR SHARING BERNIE WITH US.
00:33:15
>> THANK YOU. ALDERMAN FIORETTI?
00:33:19
>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, I TOO WANT
00:33:20
TO RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS
00:33:23
RESOLUTION. I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I
00:33:24
MET HIM I WAS IN THE
00:33:29
COUNCIL'S OFFICE AND REPRESENTING A CASE
00:33:30
AND I HAD TO GO SEE HIM.
00:33:33
QUITE FRANKLY I WAS JUST YOUNG AND OUT
00:33:34
OF LAW SCHOOL AND QUITE
00:33:38
WORRIED ABOUT SEEING THE ALDERMAN. I
00:33:39
REMEMBER THAT MEETING AND SAT
00:33:45
DOWN AND WENT OVER THINGS AND BY THE END
00:33:46
OF THE MEETINGS WE WERE
00:33:50
LAUGHING. AND THEN CAME THE FIRST WARD
00:33:51
ALDERMAN AND HE SAID, WHO SENT
00:33:58
YOU ANYWAY? FROM THERE IT BECAME AN
00:33:59
INTERESTING DISCUSSION THAT DAY
00:34:03
I HAVE TO SAY AS I JOINED THIS COUNCIL 8
00:34:04
YEARS AGO THAT I SAW YOUR
00:34:08
FATHER AND HE WAS THOUGHTFUL,
00:34:09
CONSIDERATE AND ALWAYS SERIOUS BUT HE
00:34:17
HAD LAUGHTER. WE TALKED MOVIES AND NOW I
00:34:18
THINK I HAVE ABOUT 4,000,
00:34:26
THANKS TO HIM. BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE
00:34:27
ALWAYS MADE SURE WE KEPT IN
00:34:32
LINE WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. IF IT WAS
00:34:33
ZONING, IT WAS A ZONING
00:34:37
MATTER AND NOT A LIQUOR MATTER. IN
00:34:38
HOUSING , WE KNEW WHAT WE HAD TO
00:34:44
DO. HE KNEW ALL THE CODES, HE KNEW
00:34:45
EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CODE. IT WAS
00:34:49
HIS LIFE AND SO WAS HIS FAMILY AND ALSO
00:34:50
HIS CONSTITUENTS. IT'S WHAT
00:34:57
WE SHOULD ALL BE A MODEL OF ON THIS
00:34:58
COUNCIL. ON BEHALF OF MY SECOND
00:35:03
WARD AND THIS FAMILY, ALL MY
00:35:04
CONDOLENCES.
00:35:08
>> ALDERMAN HARRIS?
00:35:09
>> MR. PRESIDENT, I TOO RISE IN SUPPORT
00:35:10
OF THIS RESOLUTION. EVERYBODY
00:35:14
HAS SAID IT ALL IN A NUTSHELL. I WANT TO
00:35:15
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING HIM
00:35:22
TO BE PART AND MENTOR SO MANY PEOPLE TO
00:35:23
ALLOW US TO COME AND SHARE
00:35:28
HIS WISDOM WITH US. BERNIE WAS THE KIND
00:35:29
OF GUY, HE WAS NEVER AFRAID
00:35:34
TO BE BLUNT, TO BE HONEST AND TO TELL
00:35:35
YOU THAT YOU ARE ON THE WRONG
00:35:39
SIDE OF THE ISSUE. OR IF YOU DIDN'T GET
00:35:40
IT QUITE RIGHT, HE WOULD SAY,
00:35:44
MAYBE YOU NEED TO RETHINK THAT CONCEPT
00:35:45
AND START OVER. TODAY I STAND
00:35:50
HERE AS A MENTEE AND I'M GRATEFUL. ON
00:35:51
BEHALF OF MYSELF AND MY FAMILY,
00:36:02
YOU HAVE OUR CONDOLENCES.
00:36:04
>> ALDERMAN?
00:36:05
>> MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, I TOO
00:36:06
RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS
00:36:08
RESOLUTION AND EXTEND MY CONDOLENCES TO
00:36:09
THE FAMILY. AND UNLIKELY
00:36:17
PAIR, UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN
00:36:18
ALDERMAN STONE AND MYSELF. I WAS A
00:36:25
WIDE EYED PERSON COMING TO THE COUNCIL
00:36:26
WITH ALL OF THESE IDEAS AND
00:36:29
BERNIE WAS THE ONE THAT JUST SAT ME DOWN
00:36:30
AND EXPLAINED TO ME HOW
00:36:35
THINGS WORK. I APPRECIATE THAT. I THINK
00:36:36
YOU HAVE HEARD HERE ABOUT HOW
00:36:40
HE WAS A MENTOR TO A LOT OF PEOPLE AND
00:36:41
HE TALKED ABOUT THE WAY THINGS
00:36:45
HAPPENED AND HOW THEY GOT DONE AND HOW
00:36:46
YOU CAN GET THINGS DONE AND HE
00:36:50
TALKED TO YOU ABOUT PICKING YOUR BATTLES
00:36:51
AND EVERYTHING WAS NOT A
00:36:54
BATTLE AND ABOUT HOW TO DO THINGS THE
00:36:55
CORRECT WAY. I PARTICULARLY
00:37:01
ENJOYED THE SPIRITED DEBATE BETWEEN HE
00:37:02
AND BURT THE TERRORIST. AS
00:37:12
ALDERMAN BURKE SAID IT WAS GOOD OLD
00:37:13
COUNCIL DAYS BUT THEY HAD
00:37:20
SPIRITED DEBATE AND WHAT I ADMIRED MORE
00:37:21
WAS HIS INTELLIGENCE AND HOW
00:37:25
HE WORKED AND WORKED TO KEEP EVERYTHING
00:37:26
RELEVANT AND UP TO DATE. IF
00:37:30
WE WERE LOOKING AT THINGS SUCH AS
00:37:31
BRINGING AIR RATED CONCRETE FOR
00:37:39
BUILDINGS HE WAS ALWAYS OPEN AND
00:37:40
RECEPTIVE TO NEW IDEAS. I TOO WAS ON
00:37:50
THAT DC TRIP AND BERNIE WAS WALKING WITH
00:37:51
THE REST OF US MINDING HIS
00:37:55
OWN BUSINESS AND THAT'S WHY IT BECAME SO
00:37:56
FUNNY. HE HAD A GREAT SENSE
00:38:01
OF HUMOR, I ALWAYS LOVED CHATTING WITH
00:38:02
HIM, BUT HE REALLY DID CARE
00:38:07
ABOUT HIS CONSTITUENTS, HE CARED ABOUT
00:38:08
THE CITY OF CHICAGO AND HE WAS
00:38:12
A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION
00:38:13
AND I SURELY DO MISS THAT, MY
00:38:19
CONDOLENCES.
00:38:20
>> ALDERMAN POPE?
00:38:21
>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, I TOO RISE
00:38:22
IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION
00:38:25
AND WISH THE FAMILY MY BEST. BERNIE WAS
00:38:26
A STRAIGHT SHOOTER AND
00:38:31
DOWN-TO-EARTH AND AS SOPHISTICATED AS HE
00:38:32
WAS IN HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE
00:38:39
BUILDING CODE, HE NEVER LOST SIGHT OF
00:38:40
THE SMALLER ISSUES. HE FOUGHT
00:38:47
AND ADVOCATED EQUALLY AS HARD FOR THOSE
00:38:48
KIND OF THINGS AND THAT
00:38:52
REALLY IMPRESSED ME. HE WASN'T THERE
00:38:53
JUST TO GRAB THE HEAD LINES. HE
00:38:57
HAD A WIDE RANGE OF ITEMS THAT HE WAS
00:38:58
INTERESTED IN AND HE KNEW
00:39:04
IMPACTED PEOPLE'S LIVES EACH DAY. HE
00:39:05
WILL BE MISSED, AS ALL OF MY
00:39:11
COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID, HE'S BEEN A MENTOR
00:39:12
TO ALL OF US. THANK YOU FOR
00:39:16
ALLOWING HIM TO SHARE HIS EXPERTISE AND
00:39:17
HIS LIFE WITH US.
00:39:24
>> ALDERMAN CARDENAS?
00:39:26
>> THANK YOU, I TOO HAVE GREAT MEMORIES
00:39:27
OF BERNIE STONE. I MISS THE
00:39:33
MOVIES. HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN ME A COPY OF
00:39:34
"GAME OF THRONES" FOR SURE.
00:39:40
I NOT ONLY ENJOYED THE DEBATES, BUT HE
00:39:41
SHARED HIS WISDOM AND I
00:39:49
APPRECIATE HIM AS AN ALDERMAN AND HE WAS
00:39:50
A GREAT MAN, I WILL MISS
00:39:56
HIM. MY CONDOLENCES.
00:39:57
>> ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY,
00:39:58
OBVIOUSLY YOU KNOW YOUR FATHER NEVER
00:40:03
STOOD ON CEREMONY, BUT HE ALWAYS STOOD
00:40:04
BY HIS CONVICTIONS. HE WILL BE
00:40:10
REMEMBERED OBVIOUSLY FOR HIS LONGEVITY
00:40:11
AND TIME HERE BUT ALSO HI
00:40:19
LOYALTY TO THE CITY OF CHICAGO. HE WAS
00:40:20
ALSO PLAINSPOKEN AND HE HAD A
00:40:28
GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR, HE HAD A GREAT
00:40:29
SENSE OF HONOR AND MOST OF ALL A
00:40:37
GREAT SENSE OF HIS TOWN PRIDE. MY
00:40:38
CONDOLENCES TO YOU FROM ME AND THE
00:40:46
CITY OF CHICAGO.
00:40:47
ALDERMAN BURKE.
00:40:48
>> MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE THE ADOPTION OF
00:40:49
THE RESOLUTION BY A RISING
00:40:52
VOTE.
00:40:55
>> PLEASE RISE.
00:41:19
>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
00:41:36
>> RESOLUTIONS.
00:41:37
CITY CLERK: A RESOLUTION FROM HIS HONOR
00:41:38
THE MAYOR ALDERMAN MORENO,
00:41:42
KNOWN AS THE KINGS GAME, CHESS IS AN
00:41:43
INTRICATE AND DEMANDING CONTEST
00:41:52
REQUIRING PATIENTS AND THE ABILITY TO
00:41:53
ADAPT ONES PLAN. WHEREAS
00:41:57
FOUNDING A YEAR AGO BY DAVID AND SHEILA,
00:41:58
THE RENAISSANCE CHESS
00:42:06
FOUNDATION TO BRING EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS
00:42:07
OF CHESS TO CHILDREN TO
00:42:10
CHILDREN IN THE AREA BY PROVIDING A
00:42:11
CURRICULUM, PROGRAMS AND
00:42:16
TOURNAMENTS AND EVENTS. WHEREAS THE
00:42:17
FOUNDATION HAS WORKED CLOSELY
00:42:20
WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM TO
00:42:21
COMPETITIVE CHESS PROGRAMS
00:42:25
THROUGHOUT THE U.S.. THOSE PROGRAMS NOW
00:42:26
SERVE MORE THAN 100 SKILLS
00:42:31
TEACHING 100 STUDENTS THE SKILL AND
00:42:32
CHALLENGES OF THIS GAME FROM
00:42:36
TEAMS THAT DERIVE IN COMPETITION AND
00:42:37
THROUGH TRAINING AND PRACTICE
00:42:41
AND SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS FROM
00:42:42
APPLYING THE DISCIPLINE LEARNED.
00:42:45
WHENEVER AS BUDDING MASS GRAND MASTERS
00:42:46
COMPETE AT THE SIXTH ANNUAL
00:42:54
GREATER CHICAGO CHAMPIONSHIPS AT
00:42:55
MCCORMICK PLACE TO COMPETE. THIS
00:43:01
YEAR'S TOURNAMENT TO ENTER FREE
00:43:02
COMPETITION AND 1 YEAR MEMBERSHIP TO
00:43:15
THE U.S. CHESS FEDERATION FOR 180
00:43:16
CHICAGO STUDENTS. AND WHEREAS
00:43:22
SHOWING GRIT, INTELLIGENCE AND MENTAL
00:43:23
TOUGHNESS, THE FOLLOWING
00:43:25
CHICAGO STUDENTS AND SCHOOL TEAMS WON
00:43:26
FIRST PLACE.
00:43:32
DENISE, A 7TH GRADER AT MORGAN PARK,
00:43:33
K-12, DEXTER JUNIOR, A 12TH
00:43:50
GRADER, GEORGIA WOLFE, ANDREW LEE, 7TH
00:43:51
GRADER, DANIEL ZHANG, 5TH
00:44:05
GRADER, STEVE E, RITA, NATHAN, K-3,
00:44:06
PEYTON, HIGH SCHOOL CHESS TEAM,
00:44:35
JUNIOR VARSITY SECTION S ELEMENTARY
00:44:36
SCHOOL, K 6 AND K 3 VARSITY
00:44:49
SECTIONS AND ACADEMY AND WHERE AS THE
00:44:50
CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN ADVISED
00:44:57
OF THIS MARVELOUS ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE
00:44:58
WARD AND WHILE ALL ARE
00:45:03
WINNING ON THEIR STERLING
00:45:04
ACCOMPLISHMENT. NOW THEREFORE BE IT
00:45:11
RESOLVED THAT THIS CITY COUNCIL DOES
00:45:12
HEREBY CONGRATULATE AND
00:45:15
RECOGNIZE AS CHICAGO CHESS CHAMPIONS,
00:45:16
DENISE, DEXTER JUNIOR, GEORGIA
00:45:25
WOLFE, ANDREW LEE, RITA, AND ALL THE
00:45:26
PARTICIPANTS IN THE CHESS
00:45:31
PROGRAMS AT PEYTON COLLEGE PREP, SEND
00:45:32
HIGH SCHOOL AND LANGUAGE
00:45:40
ACADEMY FOR ALL THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS AND
00:45:41
THE FOUNDATION FOR THEIR
00:45:49
INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THESE YOUTH
00:45:50
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
00:45:53
THAT A COPY IS PRESENTED TO THE STUDENTS
00:45:54
AND THE SCHOOLS AS A TOKEN
00:46:00
OF OUR RESPECT AND ESTEEM.
00:46:05
>> ALDERMAN BURKE?
00:46:07
>> MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVE THE TEMPORARY
00:46:08
SUSPENSION OF THIS RESOLUTION.
00:46:14
>> YOUR HONOR, IT'S INDEED A PLEASURE TO
00:46:15
WELCOME THESE YOUNG STUDENTS
00:46:19
TO THESE CHAMBERS TODAY AND TO
00:46:20
CONGRATULATE THEM ON THEIR
00:46:25
ACCOMPLISHMENTS. I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE
00:46:26
TO LEARN THE GAME OF CHESS SO
00:46:29
IN A REAL SENSE I ENVY THESE YOUNGSTER
00:46:30
HOW BRIGHT AND COMMITTED THEY
00:46:37
ARE TO THAT LONGSTANDING GAME, THAT
00:46:38
CHALLENGES THEIR DETERMINATION,
00:46:50
CHALLENGES, COMMITMENT, ALL THAT BRINGS
00:46:51
TO IMPROVE THEIR POSITIONS IN
00:46:55
LIFE. AND SO, I'M PLEASED TO JOIN WITH
00:46:56
YOU, YOUR HONOR IN
00:46:59
CONGRATULATING THEM AND WISHING THEM
00:47:00
WELL. IT SHOWS THAT OUR CITY IS
00:47:05
LOOKING TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS WITH
00:47:06
YOUNGSTER LIKE THIS.
00:47:09
CONGRATULATIONS.
00:47:10
>> I WOULD JUST SAY ALDERMAN BURKE SOME
00:47:11
OF US THINK YOU PLAY ANOTHER
00:47:15
FORM OF CHESS.
00:47:16
>> YOU MAY NOT PLAY THE CHESS THEY PLAY
00:47:17
BUT THERE ARE KNIGHTS AND
00:47:20
KINGS IN YOUR CHESSBOARD TOO. ALDERMAN
00:47:21
LAURINO?
00:47:26
>> THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR AND THANK YOU
00:47:27
FOR TAKING MY RECOMMENDATION IN
00:47:31
HONORING THESE STUDENTS. AT RENAISSANCE
00:47:32
NIGHTS I TAUGHT MY DAUGHTER
00:47:38
WHEN SHE WAS IN KINDERGARTEN, WHEN MY
00:47:39
DAUGHTER IN THIRD GRADE WON THE
00:47:45
ALL GIRLS CHESS TOURNAMENT FOR HER GRADE
00:47:46
LEVEL. DAVID AND SHEILA, I
00:47:50
TELL MY COLLEAGUES, YOU WANT CHESS IN
00:47:51
YOUR SCHOOLS, MEET WITH THESE
00:47:56
FOLKS, THEY ARE TRULY COMMITTED AS A
00:47:57
NON-PROFIT TO BRING CHESS TO ALL
00:48:01
OF CHICAGO. THEY ALWAYS EMPHASIZE THAT
00:48:02
TO ME. THEY DON'T WANT TO
00:48:05
FOLKS ON CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS. THEY
00:48:06
WANT TO OPEN IT UP TO ALL OF
00:48:11
CHICAGO. AS WE ALL KNOW ME AS A FAN OF
00:48:12
CHESS, NOT VERY GOOD BUT IT
00:48:17
TEACHES US SO MANY OTHER GREAT LIFE
00:48:18
SKILLS OTHER THAN JUST WINNING
00:48:23
THE CHESS GAME. TO THE STUDENTS, TO THE
00:48:24
WINNERS AND THE SCHOOLS, WE
00:48:29
ARE MOVING FORWARD OF BOSTON, NEW YORK,
00:48:30
AT THIS TIME ARE AHEAD OF US
00:48:36
BUT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD TO BECOMING
00:48:37
EQUAL TO THOSE OTHER CITIES AS
00:48:41
FAR AS OUR YOUTH AND CHESS IN THE
00:48:42
SCHOOLS. I WOULD LIKE TO
00:48:48
CONGRATULATE ALL THE WINNERS AND THANK
00:48:49
YOU, MR. MAYOR FOR BRINGING
00:48:53
THIS FORWARD TOO.
00:48:55
MAYOR: ALDERMAN THOMAS?
00:48:56
>> THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, I'M PROUD
00:48:57
TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
00:49:02
RESOLUTION. THE RENAISSANCE CHESS
00:49:03
FOUNDATION IS THE CATALYST FOR THE
00:49:07
GRAND KNOWLEDGE ANALYTICAL TRAINING AND
00:49:08
TEAMWORK IN PLANNING THAT
00:49:12
THESE STUDENTS LEARN TODAY. THESE ARE
00:49:13
ALL ELEMENTS THAT MAKES FOR
00:49:18
GREAT LEADER, FUTURE LEADERS IN CHICAGO
00:49:19
AND IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:49:25
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE STUDENTS,
00:49:26
THEIR PARENTS AND THE SCHOOLS
00:49:32
FOR BESTING THE GAME OF CHESS, A GAME
00:49:33
WHICH I PLAY OFTEN. YOU ARE
00:49:38
CORRECT, MR. MAYOR, ALDERMAN BURKE PLAYS
00:49:39
CHESS EVERYDAY.
00:49:46
CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM BY SHOWING THEIR
00:49:47
GRIT, INTELLIGENCE AND
00:49:52
MENTAL TOUGHNESS FOR CHICAGO. DEXTER
00:49:53
DALE JUNIOR, HAILS FROM HIS
00:49:58
SCHOOL IN THE 17TH WARD, LEO HIGH
00:49:59
SCHOOL, WE ARE PROUD OF THE
00:50:03
PRODUCTS THAT COME OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY
00:50:04
AND THE CITY OF CHICAGO.
00:50:08
THAT'S WHY I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS
00:50:09
RESOLUTION. THANK YOU, MR.
00:50:13
PRESIDENT.
00:50:14
MAYOR: ON BEHALF OF THIS GRATEFUL CITY,
00:50:15
PARENTS AND MENTORS, PLEASE
00:50:19
STAND UP SO WE CAN ALSO RECOGNIZE YOU.
00:50:20
THANK YOU.
00:50:22
[ APPLAUSE ]
00:50:33
>> I ALSO WANT TO SAY ON BEHALF OF THE
00:50:34
WHOLE CITY, RENAISSANCE NIGHT
00:50:37
FOUNDATION, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING CHESS
00:50:38
INTO OUR SCHOOLS AND THIS
00:50:42
TEAM. I REALLY WISH THE WHOLE, NOT JUST
00:50:43
THE WHOLE CITY, BUT THE
00:50:46
COUNTRY WOULD SEE THESE STUDENTS. THIS
00:50:47
IS THE TRUE FACE OF CHICAGO
00:50:54
ALL ACROSS THE CITY TO CHICAGO, TO THE
00:50:55
FOUNDATION AND THE MENTORS AND
00:50:59
PARENTS, THIS IS THE CITY OF CHICAGO. TO
00:51:00
THE FOUNDATION, PARENTS, AND
00:51:09
MENTORS AND SCHOOL, THANK YOU.
00:51:12
[ APPLAUSE ]
00:52:42
MAYOR: RESOLUTIONS?
00:52:43
>> A RESOLUTION FROM HIS HONOR THE
00:52:44
MAYOR. WHEREAS THE MEMBERS OF THIS
00:52:48
CHAMBER ARE DRIETD TO DELIGHTED TO ONE
00:52:49
OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS UP LIFT
00:52:54
COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL IN THE STATE
00:52:55
CHAMPIONSHIP AND BOYS BASKETBALL.
00:52:59
WHEREAS ESTABLISHED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
00:53:00
IN 2005. IT'S A COLLEGE
00:53:05
PREPARATORY SCHOOL THAT TLIEFS THRIVES
00:53:06
IN THE COMMUNITY A
00:53:12
COMMITMENT TO MAKE A POSITIVE DEFERENCE
00:53:13
IN THE WORLD IN THE SCHOOL
00:53:18
AS OUTSIDE WALL. EACH PERSON MUST LIVE
00:53:19
THEIR LIFE AS A MODEL TO
00:53:25
OTHERS. THE UP LIFT TITANS COMPLETED AN
00:53:26
OUTSTANDING SEASON BY WINNING
00:53:33
THE CLASS 2A BOYS BASKETBALL STATE
00:53:34
CHAMPIONSHIP AND WHERE AS THE
00:53:39
TITLE INCLUDED AN UNDEFEATED FINISH IN
00:53:40
THE CONFERENCE AND VICTORY IN
00:53:47
THE PERENNIAL POWER IN THE BIG LEAGUE
00:53:48
PLAYOFFS. WHEREAS STRIDING
00:53:54
CONFIDENTLY, THE TITANS FIRST GAINED THE
00:53:55
TITLE AT THE DOUGLAS ACADEMY
00:54:04
19-42 AND DEFEATED NORTHRIDGE 46-34 AND
00:54:05
PUNCH TICKET TO APPEAR PORE
00:54:15
EORIA TO CATCH THE SUPER SECTIONAL AND
00:54:16
WHEREAS TURNED IT'S
00:54:23
SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE IN SEMIFINAL AND
00:54:24
SCORED 72-50. AND THEREBY
00:54:33
REACHING THE CHAMPIONSHIP BULL DOGS IN
00:54:34
THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. WHEREAS
00:54:36
THE FINAL WAS A FAIR. WHEREAS IN THE
00:54:37
FINAL 8 MINUTES AFTER
00:54:58
MOMENTARILY FALLING BEHIND THEY MADE THE
00:54:59
SIX OF THEIR 11 SHOTS AND
00:55:05
GOING 5 FROM 7 IN THE FREE THROW LINE.
00:55:06
WHEREAS UP LIFTS 43-7 VICTORY
00:55:12
AS WELL AS THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE
00:55:13
ILLINOIS HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
00:55:18
INTRODUCED THE TEAM REPRESENTING CHICAGO
00:55:19
PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS BROUGHT
00:55:25
HOME THE A SCHOOLS TITLE. NOW THEREFORE
00:55:26
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY
00:55:32
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO ASSEMBLE
00:55:33
THIS APRIL 15, 2015, DO HEREBY
00:55:40
CONGRATULATE THE UP LIFT COMMUNITY HIGH
00:55:41
SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM.
00:55:50
PLAYERS, ROMEL, ALONZO, GADEL, JAM AL
00:55:51
HANSON, JAMARY, JEREMY ROSCOE,
00:56:08
DANIEL SOTON, AND JAMIA AND DEREK
00:56:09
SYLVESTER AND CHARLEMAGNE,
00:56:25
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ALLEN AND PRINCIPAL
00:56:26
STEPHANIE MOORE. AND BE IT
00:56:33
FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THESE COPIES ARE
00:56:34
PRESENTED TO THESE INDIVIDUALS
00:56:37
AS A TOKEN OF OUR APPRECIATION AND
00:56:38
ESTEEM.
00:56:46
>> ALDERMAN BURKE.
00:56:48
>> MR. PRESIDENT, I REQUEST THE
00:56:49
SUSPENSION OF THIS RESOLUTION.
00:56:52
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
00:56:53
>> YOUR HONOR, I APPRECIATE THE TEAM
00:56:54
COMING TO CELEBRATE TO A STATE
00:57:06
BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP. AS THE
00:57:07
RESOLUTION POINTS OUT, THIS WAS A
00:57:10
TOUGH SCHEDULE THAT THE TITANS PLAYED
00:57:11
THIS YEAR. INCLUDING A VICTORY
00:57:20
OVER THE POWERHOUSE WHITNEY YOUNG TEAM
00:57:21
AND GOING ON TO WIN THEIR
00:57:25
FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. AFTER A
00:57:26
RIPPING GAME OVER DECATER IN
00:57:36
TERESA, HAS INDEED EARNED A PLACE IN
00:57:37
CHICAGO HISTORY. THE SCHOOL IS
00:57:44
YOUNG, ONLY FOUNDED IN 2005. BUT THEY
00:57:45
HAVE A GREAT GROUP OF
00:57:51
INTELLIGENT MINDS TO MAKE OUR CITY
00:57:52
PROUD. YOUR HONOR, WE WOULD LIKE
00:57:56
TO RECOGNIZE PRINCIPAL STEPHANIE MOORE,
00:57:57
THE COACH, TAYLOR, MEMBERS OF
00:58:00
THE TEAM AS WELL AS ALL THE STUDENTS
00:58:01
THAT UP LIFT A REMARKABLE SEASON
00:58:06
AND ON A MORE GRUELING CHAMPIONSHIP
00:58:07
VICTORY. A YEAR OF WORK IS
00:58:14
CULMINATED A REMARKABLE SUCCESS STORY
00:58:15
NOT ONLY FOR THE TEAM BUT THE
00:58:23
CITY OF CHICAGO. THESE YOUNG MEN HAVE
00:58:24
EARNED THEIR PLACE IN THE
00:58:28
CHICAGO HISTORY BOOKS AND COMMEND THE
00:58:29
TITLE OF PRIDE TO THIS
00:58:33
BEAUTIFUL CITY. TO THE ENTIRE STUDENT
00:58:34
BODY WE UP LIFT OUR PRIDE AND
00:58:39
SUCCESS AND EXTEND TO ALL OF YOU THE
00:58:40
BEST WISHES AND GOOD LUCK FOR
00:58:45
THE REMAINDER OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AND
00:58:48
YOUR FUTURE BASKETBALL SEASONS.
00:58:50
CONGRATULATIONS.
00:59:06
THEY WORKED TOGETHER AS A TEAM.
00:59:11
ONCE YOU GRADUATE FROM SCHOOL, WE WANT
00:59:12
YOU TO BE LEADERS IN YOUR
00:59:15
COMMUNITY. THIS IS A HIGH SCHOOL WHERE
00:59:16
STUDENTS COME FROM ALL OVER
00:59:20
THE CITY OF CHICAGO TO ATTEND UPLIFT. WE
00:59:21
HAD COMMUNITY LEADERS THAT
00:59:26
WILL BE SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE
00:59:27
CITY WHO WILL BE LEADERS. AS A
00:59:31
FORMER TEACHER., I KNOW FULL WELL THAT
00:59:32
THE SECRET FOR SUCCESSFUL
00:59:40
SCHOOL. 6 PLAN
00:59:51
6
00:59:52
>> WE'RE GOING TO BE ALONG A LOT MORE
00:59:53
WORK AS BOTH THE UPLIFT
00:59:57
SCHOOL IN THE UPTOWN COMMUNITY TO
00:59:58
ADDRESS SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE
01:00:01
FACE. IT'S THE STUDENTS AND PRINCIPLE,
01:00:02
TEACHERS AND COACHES. IT'S A
01:00:11
OUR BUSINESS DISTRICT.
01:00:29
>> HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF SHOWING
01:00:30
CHICAGO GRIT, INTERIM YENS
01:00:36
AND MENTAL TOUGHNESS. THE BASKETBALL
01:00:37
STATE CHAMPIONS ALSO GARNERED
01:00:43
STRATEGIC THINKING. TEAM WORK AND
01:00:44
PLANNING. ALL OF THESE ARE GOOD
01:00:46
TRIBUTES FOR THE GOOD, GREAT, LEADER.
01:00:47
MR. PRESIDENT, MY I STEAM
01:00:53
COLLEAGUE, I SUBMIT THAT WHAT WE'RE
01:00:54
SEEING TODAY ARE THE FUTURE
01:01:01
LEADERS OF CHICAGO. WAY TO GO TIGERS.
01:01:12
>> ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY,
01:01:13
CONGRATULATIONS. YOU MADE ALL
01:01:17
OF US VERY PROUD OF YOU. IT'S BEEN NOTED
01:01:18
WE HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS.
01:01:48
CONGRATULATIONS. [APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE]
01:03:36
>> RESOLUTIONS.
01:03:38
>> RESOLUTION FOR HONOR THE MAYOR AND
01:03:39
ALDERMAN AND PATRICK
01:03:47
O'CONNOR. THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO'S
01:03:48
ICE HOCKEY TEAM DEFEATED
01:03:53
LOYOLA ACADEMY TO WIN THE HIGH SCHOOL
01:03:54
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. WHEREAS
01:03:56
THE
01:04:00
ROMANS VICTORY -- WHEREAS THE VICTORY
01:04:01
MARKS THE FIRST TIME THE CITY
01:04:03
TEAM HAS WON THE STATE TITLE IN SPORT
01:04:04
DOMINATED SINCE ITS SEASON BY
01:04:11
SUBURBAN SCHOOLS. WHEREAS LATIN SCHOOL
01:04:12
CURRENT TEAM COMPRISES TEAMS,
01:04:16
BUT ALSO CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHITNEY
01:04:17
YOUNG, AND JONES COLLEGE
01:04:22
PREP.
01:04:23
WHEREAS IN THE STATE SEMIFINAL THIS
01:04:24
SQUAD OF CHICAGO SKATERS NOTCHED
01:04:30
ITS FOURTH VICTORY OF THE SEASON.
01:04:31
DOMINATING ON BOTH SIDES IN A 5-0
01:04:39
TRIUMPH. FACING ANOTHER POWER, LATIN
01:04:40
TOOK A 3-1 LEAD AND WITT STOOD
01:04:52
A
01:04:53
FURIOUS LOYOLA RALLY. THIS IS A SEASON
01:04:54
OF FIRST FOR LATIN'S GIRLS
01:04:56
ICE
01:04:58
HOCKEY TEAM. ITS FIRST REGULAR SEASON
01:04:59
CHAMPIONSHIP, ITS FIRST STATE
01:05:01
CHAMPIONSHIP. ITS FIRST COACH OF THE
01:05:02
YEAR AWARD AND ITS FIRST
01:05:07
AMATEUR
01:05:08
HOCKEY ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS, HIGH
01:05:09
SCHOOL PLAYER OF THE YEAR
01:05:11
AWARDED
01:05:13
TO DEFENDER GRACE SARZEKY A SENIOR AT
01:05:14
WHITNEY YOUNG. IN ADDITION TO
01:05:20
THESE ACHIEVEMENTS, THE TEAM CAPTAIN
01:05:21
WARNER RECEIVED PRESTIGIOUS
01:05:32
SCHOLARSHIP AWARD. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT
01:05:33
RESOLVED, THAT WE, MAYOR AND
01:05:41
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND CITY OF
01:05:42
CHICAGO ASSEMBLE THIS 15TH
01:05:48
DAY OF APRIL 2015 CONGRATULATE THE LATIN
01:05:49
SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL GIRL'S
01:05:55
ICE
01:06:01
HOCKEY TEAM. EMMA, ELLEN LAWRENCE,
01:06:02
SYDNEY, JESSICA LUCAS, JULIA
01:06:14
NATLER, LILLY HELLER, MEREDITH SHIELDS,
01:06:15
AUDREY MCMAHON, LAUREN
01:06:22
BENNETT, SOPHIA JOHNSTON, GRACE SARZEKY,
01:06:23
GRACE CUMMINS. COACHES
01:06:33
CLAIRE AND COURTNEY O'CONNOR. DIRECTOR
01:06:34
BLAKE SORENSON. FURTHER
01:06:42
RESOLVE THAT SUITABLE COPY OF THIS
01:06:43
RESOLUTION BE PRESENTED TO EACH OF
01:06:49
THE INDIVIDUALS AS A TOKEN OF OUR
01:06:50
APPRECIATION AND ESTEEM.
01:06:55
>> CHAIRMAN BURKE.
01:06:56
>> I MOVE THE TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF
01:06:57
THE RULE FOR THE
01:06:59
CONSIDERATION OF THIS RESOLUTION. WILL I
01:07:00
REFER TO THE DISTINGUISHED
01:07:06
GENTLEMAN FROM THE 40TH WARD WHO HAS A
01:07:07
SPECIAL INTEREST.
01:07:10
>> ALDERMAN O'CONNOR.
01:07:11
>> THANK YOU, I RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS
01:07:12
RESOLUTION. THOSE OF YOU
01:07:18
WHO KNOW OF MY FAMILY, KNOW THAT I HAVE
01:07:19
HAD THREE GIRLS THAT PLAYED
01:07:23
COLLEGE HOCKEY. I'VE SEEN A LOT OF
01:07:24
COLLEGE HOCKEY GAME AND LOT OF
01:07:30
GIRLS GAMES. I TAKE PARTICULAR PRIDE
01:07:31
WHEN A TEAM FROM THE CITY OF
01:07:35
CHICAGO BEATS ANYBODY FROM THE SUBURBS.
01:07:36
[APPLAUSE] ALL OF THESE
01:07:47
GIRLS
01:07:48
HAVE DONE SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER BEEN
01:07:49
DONE IN STATE HIGH SCHOOL
01:07:52
HOCKEY, MENS OR WOMEN, THAT IS TO BRING
01:07:53
A CHAMPIONSHIP HOME TO THE
01:07:55
CITY OF CHICAGO WITH A TEAM FROM THE
01:07:56
CITY OF CHICAGO. [APPLAUSE]
01:08:06
THIS
01:08:07
TEAM WORKED HARD FOR THE LAST SEVERAL
01:08:08
YEARS WITH THE GOAL OF SOME DAY
01:08:12
ACCOMPLISHING WHAT THEY'VE DONE. THEY
01:08:13
TOOK PRETTY MUCH EVERY
01:08:14
ACCOLADE
01:08:15
THAT A TEAM COULD TAKE IN A STATE.
01:08:16
STATE'S BEST PLAYER, STATE BEST
01:08:21
COACHES, THEIR DIVISION AND THEN THE
01:08:22
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. I THINK
01:08:25
IT'S
01:08:26
FITTING THAT WE'RE HERE TODAY HONORING
01:08:27
THEM ON THE DAY THAT THE HAWKS
01:08:30
ARE HEAD INTO THE PLAYOFFS FOR THEIR
01:08:31
NEXT STANLEY CUP. I THINK IF
01:08:36
THEY NEED -- BRING SOME PLAYERS UP OR
01:08:37
GET KEY INJURIES, THERE'S A FEW
01:08:40
PEOPLE OVER THERE THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO
01:08:41
HELP THEM. THIS IS A GREAT
01:08:44
GROUP OF GIRLS. THEY WORKED HARD. I'M
01:08:45
VERY PROUD OF THEIR COACHES
01:08:51
AND I'M VERY PLEASED THAT THEY
01:08:52
PERSEVERED THIS YEAR. THEY SHOWED A
01:08:54
LOT OF GRIT AND A LOT OF INTEGRITY TO
01:08:55
GET WHERE THEY GOT AND THEY
01:08:59
SHOULD BE CONGRATULATED. THANK YOU MADAM
01:09:00
CHAIRMAN.
01:09:03
>> ALDERMAN OSTERMAN.
01:09:04
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I WANT TO
01:09:05
RECOGNIZE AND SUPPORT OF
01:09:08
THIS ORDINANCE AND CONGRATULATE LATIN
01:09:09
SCHOOL, THEIR COACHES. ALL THE
01:09:13
FAMILIES AND PARENTS THAT HAVE BEEN WITH
01:09:14
THESE GIRLS FOR MANY YEARS
01:09:16
AT
01:09:17
ICE RINKS. I HAVE NOT HAD THAT
01:09:18
PRIVILEGE. I KNOW HUGE COMMITMENTS.
01:09:22
ALL OF YOU ARE GREAT ROLE MODELS. I GOT
01:09:23
A 7-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.
01:09:27
MAYBE
01:09:28
ONE DAY SHE'LL BE SKATING. I WANT TO
01:09:29
RECOGNIZE ELLEN LAWRENCE WHO IS
01:09:32
A CONSTITUENT MINOR OF THE 48TH WARD. I
01:09:33
ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT
01:09:38
THIS IS A GREAT COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.
01:09:39
IT'S NOT JUST LATIN SCHOOL.
01:09:41
MANY OF THE GIRLS HERE FROM PUBLIC
01:09:42
SCHOOLS, LANE TECH, JOANS PREP AS
01:09:47
WELL AS CHICAGO LAB. IT'S A GREAT
01:09:48
PARTNERSHIP WITH PRIVATE SCHOOLS
01:09:51
AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. LATIN SHOWS THAT
01:09:52
COMMITMENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
01:09:56
RANDALL DUNNE HAS HAD A DEEP COMMITMENT
01:09:57
IN ADOPTING UPTOWN COMMUNITY
01:10:02
AND HELPING SOME OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
01:10:03
THERE. CONGRATULATIONS, THANK
01:10:08
YOU.
01:10:11
>>
01:10:14
>> TO ALL YOUNG WOMEN HERE TODAY.
01:10:15
ESPECIALLY TO JESSICA LUCAS.
01:10:20
WE WISH YOU ALL THE GREAT SUCCESS IN THE
01:10:21
FUTURE. THANK YOU.
01:10:26
>> ALDERMAN THOMAS.
01:10:27
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I'M
01:10:28
EXCITED ABOUT THE RESOLUTIONS
01:10:33
TODAY. WE HAVE BEEN PRESENTED WITH THE
01:10:34
CHAMPIONS OF CHICAGO WHO HAVE
01:10:37
LEARNED FROM THEIR TEAM WORK, THEIR
01:10:38
STRATEGY AND PLANNING, WE ALL
01:10:43
KNOW
01:10:44
THAT THESE ARE THE TRAITS THAT ARE
01:10:45
NEEDED IN THE WORLD TODAY. THESE
01:10:47
ARE ANOTHER SET OF LEADERS THAT WE WILL
01:10:48
WATCH FROM NOW ON. AS THE
01:10:55
RESOLUTION STATES, GIVEN TIME CHICAGO
01:10:56
TEAMS WILL DOMINATE.
01:10:59
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LATIN LADIES.
01:11:00
THANKS TO GIRL POWER, THEY WERE
01:11:06
THE ONES TO BRING THE CHAMPIONSHIP
01:11:07
TROPHY TO CHICAGO.
01:11:10
CONGRATULATIONS
01:11:13
TO LATIN COACHES, PRINCIPAL, PARENTS,
01:11:14
WAY TO GO.
01:11:22
>> ALDERMAN RILEY.
01:11:26
>> LATIN SCHOOL PHYSICALLY WAS LOCATED
01:11:27
IN THE 42ND WARD THAT I
01:11:31
REPRESENT. I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU
01:11:32
FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE. MORE
01:11:34
IMPORTANTLY, I DON'T KNOW THERE ARE MANY
01:11:35
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
01:11:42
WHO PLAYED HOCKEY BUT I DID. I DON'T
01:11:43
KNOW HOW TO DRIBBLE. I CAN
01:11:46
TELL
01:11:47
YOU, SOMEONE GREW UP ON THE ICE, I'M
01:11:48
INCREDIBLY PROUD OF YOU. WHERE
01:11:52
IS THE GOALTENDER? ALREADY, THAT'S WHAT
01:11:53
I PLAYED GROWING UP. I KNOW
01:11:56
HOW SPECIAL YOU ARE. CONGRATULATIONS TO
01:11:57
THE ENTIRE TEAM.
01:12:06
>> ALDERMAN SMITH.
01:12:07
>> I TOO RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS
01:12:08
PROFESSION. LATIN SCHOOL IS A
01:12:12
WONDERFUL NEIGHBOR IN THE GULF COAST. AS
01:12:13
AREN'T OF THE 43RD WARD.
01:12:18
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU GUYS ARE TOUGH AND
01:12:19
SKILLED. I LOVE HOCKEY. SO
01:12:23
CONGRATULATIONS.
01:12:25
>> ALDERMAN O'SHEA.
01:12:26
>> THANK YOU. I TOO RISE IN SUPPORT OF
01:12:27
THIS RESOLUTION. I ALSO
01:12:34
PLAYED SOME HOCKEY BACK IN THE DAY. I
01:12:35
GOT FOUR FAKE TEETH IN THE
01:12:38
FRONT HERE TO PROVE IT. CONGRATULATIONS.
01:12:39
YOU GUYS DID A WONDERFUL
01:12:46
JOB. WONDERFUL DETERMINATION. WE'RE
01:12:47
BUILT A NICE RINK IN OUR
01:12:50
NEIGHBORHOOD. HOPE TO SEE SOME OF YOU
01:12:51
GUYS OUT THERE. LIKE TO
01:12:54
RECOGNIZE A MEMBER OF THIS TEAM FROM MY
01:12:55
COMMUNITY. CONGRATULATIONS
01:12:59
LADIES. YOU SHOULD BE VERY PROUD.
01:13:04
>> ON A PERSONAL NOTE, LET ME SAY THAT
01:13:05
EVEN THOUGH I NEVER DID
01:13:09
PLAY HOCKEY, WE HAVE BEEN KEPT ABREAST
01:13:10
OF THE WOMENS HOCKEY SITUATION
01:13:14
BY ALDERMAN O'CONNOR FOR AT LEAST THE
01:13:15
LAST TEN YEARS. I WANT TO
01:13:18
CONGRATULATE ALL OF YOU ON AN INCREDIBLE
01:13:19
HISTORY-MAKING SESSION AND
01:13:25
CERTAINLY WE WANT TO APPLAUD COACH CLARE
01:13:26
O'CONNOR, COURTNEY O'CONNOR.
01:13:30
THIS IS A GREAT VICTORY FOR EVERY ONE OF
01:13:31
YOU. I WANT TO WISH YOU
01:13:37
WELL
01:13:38
ON FUTURE ACHIEVEMENTS. I KNOW YOU WILL
01:13:39
HAVE A WONDERFUL FUTURE.
01:13:48
[APPLAUSE] [APPLAUSE]
01:15:09
>> ALDERMAN.
01:15:10
>> I ASK FOR TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF THE
01:15:11
RULES. I'M RETIRING
01:15:16
LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. MY BIG ISSUE IN
01:15:17
THIS COUNCIL HAS ALWAYS BEEN
01:15:21
THE VETERANS AND THE MILITARY. I
01:15:22
PERSONALLY WANT TO THANK EVERYONE
01:15:25
IN
01:15:26
HERE FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND WHAT YOU'VE
01:15:27
DONE THROUGH THE YEARS WITH ME.
01:15:30
FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE IN
01:15:31
MAKING IT A BETTER PLACE FOR THE
01:15:33
MILITARY AND THE VETERANS. MY WIFE AND
01:15:34
MY DAUGHTER AND MY SON WHO
01:15:37
HELPED ME AT HOME WITH THAT ISSUE.
01:15:38
COMMISSIONER DALY WHO I CAN'T
01:15:45
THANK ENOUGH. MY STAFF, I TELL YOU, ALL
01:15:46
YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT WARD
01:15:50
WORK
01:15:51
AND HOW HARD IT IS. MY STAFF ONLY DID
01:15:52
THAT, THEY DID MEMORIAL DAY,
01:15:56
THEY DID VETERANS DAY AND FLAG DAY. I
01:15:57
WANT TO THANK THEM FOR
01:15:59
EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE IN MAKING IT A
01:16:00
GREAT VETERANS DAY, MEMORIAL
01:16:06
DAY AND FLAG DAY. DON IN THE DOWNTOWN
01:16:07
OFFERS, EVERYTHING YOU'VE
01:16:11
DONE,
01:16:12
THE POLICE, FIRE AND PARAMEDICS. I WANT
01:16:13
TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. I
01:16:16
ALWAYS TRIED TO HELP THE VETERANS AND
01:16:17
THE MILITARY. WHAT WE FOUND
01:16:19
OUT, THERE ARE CITY WORKERS THAT ARE ON
01:16:20
ACTIVE THAT ARE CALLED TO
01:16:23
ACTIVE DUTY THAT ARE RESERVED AND
01:16:24
GUARDSMEN. I WANT TO THANK THE
01:16:27
POLICE AND THE FIRE PARAMEDICS FOR
01:16:28
EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE FOR THOSE
01:16:30
PEOPLE THAT WERE CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY.
01:16:31
MY COLLEGES IN HERE THAT SAT
01:16:34
UP IN THE LAW DEPARTMENT WITH ME, MAKING
01:16:35
SURE THAT THE RIGHTS OF
01:16:37
THOSE
01:16:38
WHO WERE CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY WERE HELD
01:16:39
-- THEY WERE ACCOUNTED FOR.
01:16:51
MEMORIAL DAY, VETERANS DAY, FLAG DAY,
01:16:52
AGAIN, I CAN'T THANK YOU
01:16:55
ENOUGH.
01:16:56
MY VETERANS AND MY FRIENDS OUT THERE,
01:16:57
PLEASE STAND UP. AND MY STAFF.
01:17:11
[APPLAUSE] AGAIN, EVERYONE, IT'S BEEN A
01:17:12
HELL OF A RIDE. I THOUGHT
01:17:21
THIS WAS GOING TO BE MY LAST COUNCIL.
01:17:22
JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS
01:17:26
THROUGH, THEY PULLED ME BACK IN. I AM
01:17:27
GOING TO BE HERE UNTIL THE NEW
01:17:31
ALDERMAN IS SWORN IN. AGAIN, I WANT TO
01:17:32
PERSONALLY THANK EVERY ONE IN
01:17:35
HERE FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR THE
01:17:36
VETERANS IN THE MILITARY. AS
01:17:39
I SAY, GOD BLESS AMERICA. RAY SUAREZ AND
01:17:40
THOSE GUYS, SEMPER PHI,
01:17:52
THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]
01:18:26
[APPLAUSE]
01:18:35
>> ALDERMAN BURKE FOR MOTION ON OUR
01:18:36
RESOLUTIONS.
01:18:39
>> I LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES TEMP
01:18:40
TEARILY TO GO OUT OF THE
01:18:42
REGULAR ORDER OF BUSINESS. THE CLERK HAS
01:18:43
A PROCLAMATION.
01:18:54
>> SO ORDERED.
01:19:06
>> WHEREAS, WIDELY HERALDED BY SCHOLAR
01:19:07
AND RESIDENTS AS ONE OF
01:19:10
THE TOP THREE U.S. PRESIDENTS OF ALL
01:19:11
TIME. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE
01:19:14
16TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS
01:19:15
ONE OF ILLINOIS'S FAVORITE
01:19:19
AND MOST SONS. WHEREAS SINCE THE
01:19:20
POLITICAL CAREER AND START OF HIS
01:19:28
FAMILY., THE STATE OF ILLINOIS HAS
01:19:29
REFERRED TO AS LAND OF LINCOLN.
01:19:34
WHEREAS CITY OF CHICAGO STAND AT THE
01:19:35
HEART, WORLD RENOWNED HUB, FOR
01:19:39
ART, CULTURE AND INDUSTRY AND THE STATE
01:19:40
OF ILLINOIS. WHEREAS ABRAHAM
01:19:43
LINCOLN WON THE NOMINATION FOR THE U.S.
01:19:44
PRESIDENCY AT THE REPUBLICAN
01:19:47
NATIONAL CONVENTION HELD AT THE WIGLAMB
01:19:48
LAKE STREET IN CHICAGO IN
01:20:00
1860. WHEREAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN LED THE
01:20:01
UNIVERSITY THROUGH THE CIVIL
01:20:04
WAR AND ALSO SHEPARD IN A NEW BIRTH OF
01:20:05
FREEDOM WITH THE ISSUANCE OF
01:20:14
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND THE
01:20:15
PASSAGE OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT
01:20:24
OF THE CONSTITUTION. UNIVERSITY OF
01:20:25
ILLINOIS AND HOMESTEAD ACT, WHICH
01:20:31
SETTLED THE UNITED STATES WESTERN
01:20:32
FRONTIER AS WELL AS THE SPECIFIC
01:20:35
RAILWAY ACT, LINKING ARE THE EASTERN AND
01:20:36
WESTERN UNITED STATES
01:20:41
RAILROAD. THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
01:20:42
AGRICULTURE, THE NATIONAL ACADEMY
01:20:44
OF
01:20:45
SCIENCES AND COMPLETE NATIONALIZATION OF
01:20:46
U.S. MONETARY SYSTEM.
01:20:49
WHEREAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS SHOT DOWN BY
01:20:50
AN ASSASSIN BULLET ON
01:20:58
APRIL 14- 14, 1865, SACRIFICING HIS LIFE
01:20:59
THAT THE NATION MIGHT LIVE.
01:21:10
WHEREAS CHICAGO MAYOR FC SHERMAN AND THE
01:21:11
CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL AND THE
01:21:16
COMMON COUNCIL PASSED A RESOLUTION
01:21:17
MEMORIALIZING ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
01:21:22
WHEREIN THEY STATED IN PART, WHEREAS
01:21:23
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, A CITIZEN OF
01:21:30
ILLINOIS, A MAN EMINENT FOR THE PURITY
01:21:31
OF HIS LIFE. WHILE STILL
01:21:36
PERFORMING THE DUTIES OF THAT OFFICE TO
01:21:37
WHICH HE HAD BEEN REELECTED
01:21:40
BY
01:21:41
PEOPLE. HAS BEEN STRICKEN DOWN BY THE
01:21:42
HAND OF A MURDERER. WHEREAS
01:21:45
HIS HONOR REMAINS ARE NOW LYING IN STATE
01:21:46
AT WASHINGTON, AND THE
01:21:49
FUNERAL CEREMONIES WILL TAKE PLACE ON
01:21:50
WEDNESDAY NEXT. THEREFORE, BE
01:21:54
IT EVOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND ALDERMAN IN
01:21:55
THE CITY OF CHICAGO WE HAVE
01:21:59
RECEIVE THE NEWS OF THIS TERRIBLE
01:22:00
CALAMITY WITH THE DEEPEST EMOTIONS
01:22:05
OF HORROR AND GRIEF. RESOLVED THAT THE
01:22:06
DECEASE WILL STAND AMONG THE
01:22:12
BRIGHTEST NAMES IN HISTORY. WHEREAS
01:22:13
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FUNERAL TRAIN
01:22:22
MADE ITS WAY TO CHICAGO ON MAY 1, 1865
01:22:23
TRAVELING ON THE TRAIN WAS
01:22:32
CONGRESSMAN ISAAC AND MR. UPTON OF THE
01:22:33
CHICAGO TRIBUNE. WHEREAS
01:22:38
ABRAHAM LINCOLN LAY IN STATE AT THE OLD
01:22:39
CHICAGO COURTHOUSE FROM
01:22:43
5:00 P.M. ON MAY 1, 1865, DEPARTING FOR
01:22:44
HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE IN
01:22:52
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS ON MAY 3, 1865.
01:22:53
WHEREAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS
01:22:56
LAID TO ARREST IN SPRINGFIELD THE
01:22:57
CAPITOL OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS
01:23:00
AND
01:23:03
WHEREAS APRIL 15, 2015 MARKS THE 150TH
01:23:04
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF
01:23:09
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 16TH PRESIDENT OF THE
01:23:10
UNITED STATES WHO SHALL
01:23:11
FOREVER BELONG THE AGES AND LIVE ON IN
01:23:12
LOCAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL
01:23:16
HISTORY IS AN EXAMPLE OF LEADERSHIP AND
01:23:17
BEACON OF PROGRESS. NOW
01:23:22
THEREFORE, I RAHM EMANUEL MAYOR OF THE
01:23:23
CITY OF CHICAGO, DO PROCLAIM
01:23:29
APRIL 15, 2015 TO BE ABRAHAM LINCOLN DAY
01:23:30
IN CHICAGO IN REMEMBRANCE
01:23:33
AND
01:23:34
RECOGNITION OF ONE OF THE MOST VENERABLE
01:23:35
LEADERS OF THE STATE OF
01:23:37
ILLINOIS AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
01:23:38
DATED THIS 14TH DAY OF
01:23:44
APRIL 2015 BY RAHM EMANUEL, MAYOR.
01:23:48
>> ALDERMAN BURKE.
01:23:51
>> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. TODAY WE'RE
01:23:52
ESPECIALLY FORTUNATE TO
01:23:54
HAVE WITH US GARY JOHNSON OF THE CHICAGO
01:23:55
HISTORY MUSEUM AND JULIE
01:24:03
KATZ
01:24:04
WHO BROUGHT WITH THEM THREE PRICELESS
01:24:05
ARTIFACTS. THESE LINCOLN
01:24:09
ARTIFACTS COME FROM THEIR COLLECTION AND
01:24:10
ARE THE BED SHEET FROM THE
01:24:19
BED ON WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED AND
01:24:20
YOU'LL NOTE, LADIES AND
01:24:25
GENTLEMEN, THAT BED SHEET IS STAINED
01:24:26
WITH THE BLOOD OF THE 16TH
01:24:32
PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. THEY ALSO
01:24:33
HAVE BROUGHT WITH THEM THE TWO
01:24:41
SILVER DOLLARS, TWO SILVER HALF DOLLAR
01:24:42
COINS WHICH WAS PLACED ON
01:24:47
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S EYES FOLLOWING HIS
01:24:48
DEATH ON THAT FAITHFUL MORNING.
01:24:53
THEY ALSO HAVE BROUGHT WITH THEM FOR
01:24:54
YOUR EDIFICATION, A MORNING
01:25:01
RIBBON, WHICH WAS WORN AFTER THE
01:25:02
ASSASSINATION. TODAY, AMERICA
01:25:09
COMMEMORATES ONE OF THE SADDEST DAYS IN
01:25:10
THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION.
01:25:15
150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF
01:25:16
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. AT THE START OF
01:25:21
THE SILVER WAR, IN 1861, NEARLY ONE IN
01:25:22
EIGHT AMERICANS WERE PROPERTY
01:25:30
OF ANOTHER. BY WARS END IN 1865, THE
01:25:31
NATION IT OUTLAWED SLAVERY, THE
01:25:39
UNION HAD BEEN PRESERVED AND THE
01:25:40
AMERICANS WERE COMING TO TERMS WITH
01:25:44
THE DREADFUL TRAGEDY THAT SAW TWO THIRDS
01:25:45
OF A MILLION AMERICANS DIE
01:25:49
DURING FOUR YEARS OF CIVIL WAR. BUT
01:25:50
AMERICANS WOULD INDEED BE FORCED
01:25:57
ENDURE ONE MORE TRAGEDY. THE
01:25:58
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
01:26:02
WHICH OCCURRED JUST FIVE SHORT DAYS
01:26:03
AFTER GENERAL LEE SURRENDER.
01:26:12
WHILE STORY OF LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION
01:26:13
150 YEARS AGO AND HIS DEATH ON
01:26:19
APRIL 15, 1865 IS ETCHED TO THE NATION'S
01:26:20
CONSCIENCE. CHICAGO
01:26:29
UNDERSTAND HOW SIGNIFICANT CHICAGO WAS
01:26:30
AND ABRAHAM LIG'S RISE TO
01:26:37
POWER. LONG BEFORE LINCOLN TO
01:26:38
POLITICIAN, THERE WAS LINCOLN TO
01:26:45
LAWYER. LINCOLN LOVED THE VIBRANT CITY
01:26:46
OF CHICAGO AND THROUGHOUT THE
01:26:57
YEARS, MADE MANY FRIENDS HERE. FRIENDS
01:26:58
WHO WOULD ULTIMATELY BECOME
01:27:05
HIS POLITICAL SUPPORTER AND WHO INDEED
01:27:06
WOULD STAGE THE COOL IN THE
01:27:13
WIGWAM HERE IN 1860, THE REPUBLICAN
01:27:14
CONVENTION. WHICH ENSURED HIS
01:27:18
NOMINATION ON THE THIRD BALLOT AND
01:27:19
INDEED, BUCKED FOR THOSE CHICAGO
01:27:24
FRIENDS. APRIL LINCOLN NEVER WOULD HAVE
01:27:25
BEEN PRESIDENT OF THESE
01:27:30
UNITED STATES. FIFTEEN DAYS AFTER HIS
01:27:31
ASSASSINATION, CHICAGO ALSO
01:27:38
WELCOMED THE TRAIN, WHICH ARRIVED ON MAY
01:27:39
1ST AND HUNDREDS OF
01:27:45
THOUSANDS OF MOURNERS WAITED TO PAY
01:27:46
THEIR RESPECTS. PRESIDENT WOULD
01:27:50
LAY IN STATE HERE ON THIS VERY GROUND
01:27:51
FOR TWO DAYS WITH THE CITY
01:28:00
DRAPED IN BLACK. THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE
01:28:01
NIGHT AND WELL INTO THE LATE
01:28:03
EVENING OF THE NEXT DAY, APPROXIMATELY
01:28:04
7000 MOURNERS PER HOUR PASSED
01:28:12
BY THE PRESIDENT'S REMAINS AND PAID
01:28:13
THEIR LAST RESPECTS UNTIL HIS
01:28:18
REMAINS WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE FUNERAL
01:28:19
CAR FOR HIS FINAL JOURNEY
01:28:22
HOME
01:28:26
TO SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. AS THE
01:28:27
PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY THE MAYOR
01:28:32
POINTS OUT, UPON LINCOLN'S DEATH, AT
01:28:33
7:22 A.M., 150 YEARS AGO, TODAY,
01:28:42
SECRETARY OF WAR EDWARD STANTON STATED
01:28:43
AND NOW HE BELONGS TO THE
01:28:48
AGES.
01:28:49
BEING PRESENT WITH THESE ARTIFACTS THIS
01:28:50
MORNING IN THIS HISTORIC
01:28:55
CHAMBER, ON THE VERY LAND WHERE
01:28:56
LINCOLN'S REMAINS WERE VENERATED BY
01:29:04
MOURNERS AND WITH THE COUNTLESS,
01:29:05
THOUSANDS OF OTHER ARTIFACTS AND
01:29:10
MUSEUMS BOTH HERE AND IN SPRINGFIELD AND
01:29:11
IN WASHINGTON. ABRAHAM
01:29:14
LINCOLN, THE 16TH PRESIDENT OF THESE
01:29:15
UNITED STATES, CONTINUES TO
01:29:19
BELONG TO THE AGES AND INDEED HIS LEGACY
01:29:20
ENDURES. HOPEFULLY THE
01:29:24
YOUNG
01:29:26
PEOPLE HERE TODAY WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
01:29:27
VIEWING THIS GROUP OF
01:29:34
ARTIFACTS AND CAN TELL THEIR CHILDREN
01:29:35
AND GRANDCHILDREN 150 YEARS
01:29:38
FROM
01:29:41
NOW, THEY WERE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE
01:29:42
LINCOLN MEMORABILIA THAT WERE
01:29:45
BROUGHT HERE TO THIS CHAMBER IN
01:29:46
CONNECTION WITH THE PROCLAMATION
01:29:50
ISSUED BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF
01:29:51
CHICAGO DECLARING THIS DAY TO BE A
01:29:58
DAY OF MEMORIAL COMMEMORATION IN THE
01:29:59
CITY OF CHICAGO. THANK YOU
01:30:01
MADAM
01:30:02
PRESIDENT.
01:30:06
>> THANK YOU. ALDERMAN BURKE. ON THE
01:30:07
APPROVAL OF THE
01:30:35
RESOLUTIONS.
01:30:37
>> WISHING TO BE HEARD WITH THE RESPECT
01:30:38
OF THE PROCLAMATION.
01:30:43
SORRY, AROUND SMITH.
01:30:48
>> WE'RE HERE ON A CITY COUNCIL MEETING
01:30:49
IN THE RUSH OF THE THINGS
01:30:52
THAT WE DO EVERYDAY AFTER AN ELECTION
01:30:53
SEASON. YET, ATTENTION MUST BE
01:31:00
PAID THAT 150 YEARS AGO, THE MOST
01:31:01
IMPORTANT PRESIDENT IN OUR NATION'S
01:31:03
HISTORY SINCE IT WAS FOUNDED DIED. AFTER
01:31:04
CELEBRATING 150 YEARS AGO,
01:31:13
THAT A WAR THAT TORE OUR COUNTRY APART
01:31:13
BUT SET IT OWN ITS PROGRESS
01:31:16
FOR
01:31:18
THE FUTURE ENDED. I'M VERY PROUD THAT
01:31:19
THE 43RD WARD HISTORY MUSEUM
01:31:27
IS HERE TODAY TO SHARE THESE IMPORTANT
01:31:28
AND CHILLING ARTIFACTS. I
01:31:33
SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THE PROCLAMATION,
01:31:34
I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE'RE PAYING
01:31:39
ATTENTION TO THIS MOST IMPORTANT DAY.
01:31:44
>> ALDERMAN FIORETTI.
01:31:46
>> THANK YOU. I TO WANT TO RISE IN
01:31:47
SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION
01:31:50
TODAY. OBVIOUSLY, I THINK THE NATION WAS
01:31:51
STUNNED 150 YEARS AGO BUT
01:31:53
WE
01:31:55
ARE STILL STUNNED 150 YEARS LATER. I'M
01:31:56
CURRENTLY READING DORIS
01:32:05
KERN'S
01:32:08
GOODWIN BOOK, "TEAM OF RIVAL" TO SEE
01:32:09
WHAT THE PRESIDENT STARTED AS A
01:32:13
YOUNG LAWYER HERE IN THE STATE OF
01:32:14
ILLINOIS. THERE WAS A QUOTE THAT
01:32:20
WAS SAID THAT USED IN THE PASS THERE'S
01:32:21
NOT A MORE FATAL ERROR TO
01:32:25
YOUNG
01:32:27
LAWYERS AND RELY TOO MUCH ON SPEECH
01:32:28
MAKING. IF ANYONE UPON HIS RARE
01:32:35
POWER OF SPEAKING SHALL CLAIM DREAM
01:32:36
DREADRY OF THE LAW. STEVE, YOU
01:32:39
KNOW THAT MEANS IT'S REALLY ROLLING UP
01:32:40
OUR SLEEVES AND DOING THE HARD
01:32:43
WORK THAT'S NECESSARY. IT'S A LESSON FOR
01:32:44
ALL. IT'S A LESSON FOR
01:32:46
WHAT
01:32:47
WE NEED TO DO. AS CHAIRMAN BURKE SAID,
01:32:48
IT WAS 150 YEARS PLUS A FEW
01:32:54
DAYS THAT THE BODY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
01:32:55
LIED IN STATE HERE IN THE
01:32:58
FORMER
01:33:00
CITY HALL. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HE CAME
01:33:01
OFF THAT TRAIN THERE AT
01:33:05
11TH AND INDIANA AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT
01:33:06
WE SHOULD REMEMBER. I
01:33:10
THINK ALL OF US SHOULD GO PASS AND SEE
01:33:11
THESE ARTIFACTS AND PIECES OF
01:33:15
HISTORY THAT ARE IN FRONT OF US. IT
01:33:16
INSTILLS UPON A NATION THAT THE
01:33:21
CIVIL WAR STARTED, THE LAST CASUALTY OF
01:33:22
THAT WAR WAS THE PRESIDENT OF
01:33:26
THE UNITED STATES. FOR THAT, WE SHOULD
01:33:27
ALL REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED,
01:33:31
WHAT HE DID, WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED AND
01:33:32
FOR ALL OF US, MADE A BETTER
01:33:38
NATION FOR EVERYONE. THANK YOU.
01:33:42
>> ALDERMAN BURKE JUST LET ME SAY THANK
01:33:43
YOU FOR BRINGING THIS
01:33:48
FORTH TO US TODAY AND TO THE STAFF OF
01:33:49
THE CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM.
01:33:54
THANK YOU.
01:33:55
>> THANK YOU TO THE CHICAGO HISTORY
01:33:56
MUSEUM. WHAT A GREAT
01:34:00
INSTITUTION IT IS. WE'RE SO FORTUNATE TO
01:34:01
HAVE IN CHICAGO.
01:34:02
CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
01:34:03
BRINGING THOSE PRICELESS
01:34:08
ARTIFACTS FOR US TODAY. [APPLAUSE]
01:35:31
>> ALDERMAN BURKE FOR A MOTION ON THE
01:35:32
RESOLUTIONS. THE PRIOR
01:35:38
RESOLUTION.
01:35:39
>> YES, I'M SORRY. UNLESS THERE'S A
01:35:40
OBJECTION, I MOVE THAT THE
01:35:46
RESOLUTIONS PREVIOUSLY READ TO THE
01:35:47
COUNSEL AND ADDRESSED BY THE
01:35:49
MEMBERS BE ADOPTED.
01:35:51
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION. SO WORD.
01:35:52
ALDERMAN AUSTIN.
01:36:05
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. MOVE FOR
01:36:06
TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF
01:36:09
THE RULES FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION OF
01:36:10
A RESOLUTION AND ASK THE
01:36:12
CLERK TO READ THE RESOLUTION.
01:36:13
>> HEARING NO OBJECTIONS. CLERK READ THE
01:36:14
RESOLUTION.
01:36:20
>> WHEREAS POLICE OFFICER MARY TILLRY
01:36:21
AND COMMUNITY COORDINATOR
01:36:25
AND WOMAN OF VISION WAS NAMED RECIPIENT
01:36:26
OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPLE
01:36:32
HEART FROM THE AMERICAN POLICE HALL OF
01:36:33
FAME ON FEBRUARY 13, 2015.
01:36:36
WHEREAS CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF
01:36:37
THIS NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT BY
01:36:39
THE HONORABLE KERRY M. AUSTIN, ALDERMAN
01:36:40
OF THE 34TH WARD. WHEREAS
01:36:47
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPLE HEART IS
01:36:48
AWARDED THE PERSONNEL. OFFICER
01:36:58
TILL -- WITH A CERTIFICATION IN
01:36:59
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, ALL WHILE
01:37:02
RAISING SIX CHILDREN ALONG WITH HER
01:37:03
HUSBAND, ANDRE. WHEREAS POLICE
01:37:07
OFFICER MARY TILLRY BEGAN HER CAREER
01:37:08
WITH THE CHICAGO POLICE
01:37:12
DEPARTMENT ON AUGUST 5, 2002 UNTIL IT
01:37:13
CAME TO BANKRUPT HAULT ON AUGUST
01:37:19
AUGUST 4, 2011 WHEN SHE BECAME SERIOUSLY
01:37:20
INJURED. SHE HAD TO UNDERGO
01:37:25
MAJOR SURGERY WHICH RESULTED THE IN THE
01:37:26
REMOVAL OF HIS FIRST
01:37:30
RIB.
01:37:32
WHEREAS THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, AS THE
01:37:33
RECIPIENT OF THE PURPLE HEART,
01:37:36
SHE WAS BESTOWED THE 2004 CRIME
01:37:37
REDUCTION RIBBON, 2008 PRESIDENTIAL
01:37:46
ELECTION AWARD, 2010 UNIT AWARD, AND
01:37:47
FIVE HONORABLE MENTION. WHEREAS
01:37:52
OFFICER TILLRY IS NOT ONLY ONE OF
01:37:53
CHICAGO'S FINEST BUT A PERSON QUIT
01:38:00
COMMITTED TO COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WHERE
01:38:01
SHE ENVISIONED A BETTER
01:38:03
WORLD
01:38:05
AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES. WHEREAS AS A
01:38:06
COMMUNITY COORDINATOR FOR
01:38:07
ADULTS
01:38:08
AND CHILDREN TOGETHER AGAINST VIOLENCE
01:38:09
ACT, SHE PARTNERED WITH
01:38:14
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND FACILITATING
01:38:15
PARENTING CLASSES WITH THE
01:38:18
FOCUS ON NONVIOLENCE. IN HER PASSION FOR
01:38:19
EDUCATING OUR YOUTH, SHE
01:38:24
CREATED A TUTORING PROGRAM FOR GRADE
01:38:25
SCHOOL CHILDREN IN READING AND
01:38:28
MATH. WHEREAS OFFICER TILLRY WAS
01:38:29
RENOWNED MENTOR FOR TEEN MOMS AT
01:38:33
SECOND CHANCE WHERE SHE CONDUCTED
01:38:34
MOTIVATIONAL WORKSHOPS TO ENCOURAGE
01:38:37
TEENS TO FURTHER THEIR EDUCATION.
01:38:38
WHEREAS A MEMBER OF THE NEW
01:38:41
MIRACLE
01:38:42
TEMPLE FOR OVER 40 YEARS WHERE SHE AND
01:38:43
HER HUSBAND HAVE COCHAIRED THE
01:38:48
MARRIAGE MINISTRY, MONTHLY MEETINGS AND
01:38:49
WORKSHOPS PRIOR HER TO
01:38:51
PASSING
01:38:52
THE TORCH TO OTHERS. OFFICER TILLRY'S
01:38:53
INTEREST IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
01:39:00
GREW FOR MANY YEARS, OBSERVING ONE
01:39:01
PRIMARY FACTOR THAT LED TO
01:39:04
NEGATIVE
01:39:05
INTERACTION WHAT WAS THE LACK OF
01:39:06
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY. OFFICER
01:39:09
TILLRY
01:39:13
CREATED DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED HER
01:39:14
OWN LINE OF DISPOSABLE
01:39:20
MATTRESSES AND LINES, A MINORITY OWNED
01:39:21
WOMEN OWN BUSINESS. AS
01:39:24
FOUNDER
01:39:25
AND CEO, HER GOAL IS TO GROW THE
01:39:26
BUSINESS AND CREATE JOBS IN THE
01:39:28
COMMUNITY. IN HER SPARE TIME, OFFICER
01:39:29
TILLRY ENJOYS MUSIC, READING
01:39:32
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, HER FAMILY.
01:39:33
ENSURING HER CHILDREN ARE
01:39:40
STIMULATED BOTH EDUCATIONALLY AND
01:39:41
PSYCHOLOGICALLY. MARY LIVES BAY
01:39:46
QUOTE. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVE AND
01:39:47
WE THE MAYOR AND MAYOR CITY
01:39:53
OF CHICAGO ASSEMBLY THIS 15TH DAY OF
01:39:54
APRIL HEREBY HONOR AND
01:39:58
CONGRATULATE THE POLICE OFFICER MARY
01:39:59
TELLRY OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO
01:40:01
THE
01:40:02
CITY OF CHICAGO AND HARD WORK IN THE
01:40:03
COMMUNITY. BE IT FURTHER
01:40:06
RESOLVED, SUITABLE COPY OF THIS
01:40:07
RESOLUTION BE PRESENTED TO POLICE
01:40:12
OFFICER MARY TILLRY -- TILLRY.
01:40:13
[APPLAUSE]
01:40:27
>> ALDERMAN AUSTIN.
01:40:29
>> WITH AS MANY PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS THAT
01:40:30
MARY HAS RECEIVED,
01:40:32
ESPECIALLY THAT ONE OF THE PURPLE HEART.
01:40:33
AS THE CLERK WOULD READ ON
01:40:38
FOR THE CRIME REDUCTION RIBBON, FOR THE
01:40:39
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
01:40:42
DEPLOYMENT FOR THE CRIME REDUCTION AWARD
01:40:43
AND THE UNIT AWARD, THOSE
01:40:47
ARE
01:40:50
JUST A FEW. WHAT SHE IS TO US IS A WOMAN
01:40:51
OF VALOR. TRULY A WOMAN OF
01:41:00
VALOR. [APPLAUSE] BECAUSE SHE DID -- IT
01:41:01
WAS NOT JUST ABOUT HER JOB
01:41:06
AND WORKING IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
01:41:07
BUT WORKING IN HER COMMUNITY
01:41:10
IS
01:41:11
WHAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE. BECAUSE IT WAS
01:41:12
NOT JUST ABOUT MARY AND HER
01:41:15
SIX CHILDREN AND HER HUSBAND, BUT ALL OF
01:41:16
THOSE SHE CAME IN CONTACT
01:41:21
WITH. SIX CHILDREN. I THOUGHT I HAD A
01:41:22
BIG JOB WITH SEVEN. SHE HAD
01:41:25
A
01:41:28
BIG JOB. ESPECIALLY BEING AN LAW
01:41:29
ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. FOR OUR
01:41:31
COMMUNITY, WE COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD OF
01:41:32
AN INDIVIDUAL THAT CAN SAY
01:41:36
THAT I CAN LOOK UP TO. A WOMAN OF VALOR.
01:41:37
OF WHAT THAT SHE HAS
01:41:42
ACCOMPLISHED, WE ARE TRULY PROUD OF HER.
01:41:43
HER WORDS THAT SHE LIVE BY,
01:41:48
THERE IS ALWAYS TIME TO MAKE A
01:41:49
DIFFERENCE. EVERYBODY CAN DO
01:41:53
SOMETHING
01:41:56
TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD. MARY
01:41:57
SAW THAT AND SHE SAW IT
01:42:01
BEING AN OPEN HEART OF THIS WOULD BE A
01:42:02
DIFFERENT WORLD AND IF
01:42:06
EVERYBODY WOULD TO SOMETHING TO MAKE A
01:42:07
DIFFERENCE, IT CAN BE. THANK
01:42:13
YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I KNOW THAT
01:42:14
ALDERMAN HAIRSTON LIKE TO SPEAK ON
01:42:19
OFFICER TILLRY'S BEHALF.
01:42:20
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS
01:42:21
OF THE CITY COUNCIL. I
01:42:23
TOO RISE IN SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION.
01:42:24
I HAVE WONDERED WHERE
01:42:32
OFFICER
01:42:35
TILLERY WAS. WHEN I STARTED OUT SHE CAME
01:42:36
TO THE THIRD DISTRICT.
01:42:42
WHAT
01:42:44
IS MOST IMPORTANT ABOUT OFFICER TILLERY
01:42:45
IS HER COMMITMENT AND
01:42:48
DEDICATION TO FAMILY AND TO KIDS. I SAW
01:42:49
THAT EARLY ON AT THE THIRD
01:42:55
DISTRICT. THAT WAS THE ONE TIME WHERE
01:42:56
THE POLICE AND THE COMMUNITY
01:42:59
LED BY EXAMPLE IN HOW TO GET ALONG WITH
01:43:00
THE PROGRAMMING AND
01:43:03
EVERYTHING. IT WAS A GOOD TIME AND
01:43:04
LEARNED A LOT. I'M GLAD TO SEE
01:43:09
THAT YOU KEPT ON FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS
01:43:10
AND BEING COMMITTED TO WHO YOU
01:43:13
ARE AND TO WHO YOU HAVE BEEN AND
01:43:14
REMEMBERING TO KEEP YOUR FAMILY AND
01:43:20
GOD FIRST. I AM PROUD 15 YEARS LATER TO
01:43:21
SEE THAT YOU ARE CONTINUING
01:43:24
ON THAT PATH TO GREATNESS.
01:43:25
CONGRATULATIONS. [APPLAUSE]
01:43:32
>> I'M SURE ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY
01:43:33
COUNCIL, WE EXTEND OUR
01:43:36
CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR FINE WORK.
01:43:37
ALDERMAN AUSTIN.
01:43:39
>> I WOULD LIKE FOR THIS TO BE APPROVED.
01:43:50
>> SO ORDERED.
01:45:54
>> ALDERMAN AUSTIN.
01:45:55
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. MOVE FOR
01:45:56
TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF
01:45:58
THE RULES FOR READING OF A RESOLUTION.
01:46:03
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION. SO ORDERED.
01:46:06
>> WHEREAS CANDY CASEY AND ENTREPRENEUR
01:46:07
SPEAKER, AUTHOR,
01:46:10
COMMUNITY COORDINATOR AND A WOMAN OF
01:46:11
VISION WAS INDUCTED INTO THE
01:46:14
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HALL OF FAME ON
01:46:15
FEBRUARY 22, 2014, AS THE FIRST
01:46:21
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO MANAGE A
01:46:22
WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL
01:46:25
TEAM. WHEREAS THE CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN
01:46:26
ADVISED OF THIS NOTABLE
01:46:28
ACHIEVEMENT BY THE HONORABLE KERRY M.
01:46:29
AUSTIN ALDERMAN OF THE 34TH
01:46:36
WARD. WHEREAS IN 1992 CASEY, TOOK AN
01:46:37
ENTREPRENEUR RISK BY PURCHASING
01:46:44
THE CHICAGO TWISTERS PROFESSIONAL WOMENS
01:46:45
BASKETBALL TEAM, WNBA.
01:46:51
ASSUMED THE DIRECTOR OF
01:46:52
OPERATIONS/GENERAL MANAGER. A SAVVY
01:46:53
BUSINESS
01:46:57
WOMAN AND TRIED AND TRUE CHICAGOAN,
01:46:58
CASEY SUCCESSFULLED PROMOTED AND
01:47:04
BROUGHT TO SUCCESS HER TEAM. WHEREAS IN
01:47:05
1995, SHE WAS HONORED AT THE
01:47:11
NEYSMITH BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME IN
01:47:12
SPRINGFIELD TO BEING THE FIRST
01:47:15
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO MANAGE A
01:47:16
WOMEN'S PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL
01:47:19
EARNING A BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP RING.
01:47:20
WHEREAS AN EFFORT TO INSPIRE
01:47:23
OTHERS WITH HER JOURNEY TO SUCCESS AND
01:47:24
RECOGNIZED AS A TRAILBLAZER,
01:47:28
CASEY TRAVELED THE WORLD SPEAKING ABOUT
01:47:29
HER 17 YEAR JOURNEY TO THE
01:47:32
HALL OF FAME. MOTIVATING WOMEN AND
01:47:33
ENTREPRENEURS AND USING HER
01:47:35
DIVERSE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES IN THE
01:47:36
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE,
01:47:37
STATE
01:47:38
OF ILLINOIS AND THE ILLINOIS INSTITUTE
01:47:39
OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
01:47:42
TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE OF ALL
01:47:43
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUNDS. WHEREAS
01:47:45
TRULY
01:47:46
A WOMAN OF MANY TALENTS, CASEY HAS HAD
01:47:47
WORK PUBLISHED IN THE CHICAGO
01:47:54
DEFENDER, PEORIA NEWS, CRUSADER MAGAZINE
01:47:55
AND HAS BEEN FEATURED IN
01:47:58
BLOGS, NEWS AND OUTLETS. WHEREAS WISHING
01:47:59
TO EXTEND HER PROFESSIONAL
01:48:09
CAPABLABILITIES TO HELP OTHERS, CASEY
01:48:10
ESTABLISHED HER OWN BUSINESS
01:48:13
AND
01:48:14
BECAME A SUCCESSFUL MOTIVATIONAL
01:48:15
SPEAKER, BUSINESS COACH AND
01:48:21
CONSULTANT. HER PROPENSITY FOR
01:48:22
MENTORSHIP EXTENDED TO HER FAMILY AND
01:48:26
SHE ASSUMED THE ROLE FOR MANAGER FOR THE
01:48:27
CAREER OF HER DAUGHTER. SHE
01:48:34
ALSO WORKS CLOSELY IN HER COMMUNITY WITH
01:48:35
YOUTH AND PRINCIPALS AN
01:48:41
ADVOCATE FOR ENTREPRENEUR AND
01:48:42
ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS EDUCATION. HER
01:48:53
PASSION IS TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO
01:48:54
CHALLENGE THEMSELVES WITH
01:48:56
EMPOWERING
01:48:58
MOTIVATIONAL TOOLS AND SHE IS AN
01:48:59
INSPIRATION TO MANY IN HER COMMUNITY
01:49:01
AND AROUND THE COUNTRY. NOW THEREFORE,
01:49:02
BE IT RESOLVED THAT WE, THE
01:49:05
MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
01:49:06
THE CITY OF CHICAGO,
01:49:08
ASSEMBLED THIS 15TH DAY OF APRIL 2015 TO
01:49:09
CONGRATULATE CANDY CASEY.
01:49:21
THIS RESOLUTION TO BE PRESENTED TO CANDY
01:49:22
CASEY.
01:49:26
>> ALDERMAN AUSTIN.
01:49:27
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. MADAM
01:49:28
PRESIDENT TO RISE FOR THIS
01:49:32
RESOLUTION, AS I JUST STATED ABOUT
01:49:33
OFFICER TILLERY, ANOTHER WOMAN OF
01:49:39
VALOR. BUT A WOMAN WHO IN MY OPINION DID
01:49:40
NOT GIVE HER JUST DO YOU,
01:49:50
-- DUE.
01:49:51
NEVER TO HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO
01:49:52
OUR COUNCIL FOR A RECOGNITION.
01:49:57
NOW FOR THAT TO BE THE FIRST, THE NUMBER
01:49:58
ONE, THE FIRST
01:50:04
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO MANAGE A
01:50:05
PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL TEAM.
01:50:10
THAT
01:50:11
SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE THAN JUST THIS
01:50:12
HONOR DUE HERE, IT SHOULD HAVE
01:50:13
BEEN IN THE STATE HOUSE, THE WHITE
01:50:14
HOUSE. FOR THE FIRST WOMAN. I
01:50:19
THINK SHE DESERVE MORE RECOGNITION THAN
01:50:20
WHAT SHE HAVE IN THIS
01:50:23
COUNCIL.
01:50:24
BUT, A HUMBLE WOMAN THAT SHE IS, I ASK
01:50:25
HER CASEY, CAN I DO THIS AGAIN
01:50:29
EVEN THOUGH YOU RECEIVED A LETTER FROM
01:50:30
OUR MAYOR. ALDERMAN, I'M
01:50:34
SATISFIED WHAT I HAVE. NO, I WANT TO BE
01:50:35
ABLE TO DO JUST WHAT WE'RE
01:50:41
DOING HERE TODAY. HONOR HER AS THE FIRST
01:50:42
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN TO
01:50:50
MANAGE A PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL TEAM.
01:50:51
WITH THAT, CASEY, I DON'T
01:50:55
KNOW
01:50:56
FIX PLAY BASKETBALL BUT ANYWAY, I WOULD
01:50:57
LIKE TO SAY JUST ON BEHALF OF
01:51:01
OUR WARD, WE ARE SO EXTREMELY PROUD OF
01:51:02
YOU. FOR THE MEMBERS IN THIS
01:51:09
COUNCIL, WITH DO HONOR YOU FOR YOUR
01:51:10
SERVICE. FOR THAT AND FOR THOSE
01:51:14
THAT YOU HAVE TAUGHT, FOR THOSE THAT
01:51:15
YOU'VE GIVEN OF YOURSELF, YOUR
01:51:17
TIME AND YOUR TALENT, WE DO TRULY ALL
01:51:18
APPRECIATE YOU. THANK YOU
01:51:23
MADAM
01:51:25
PRESIDENT.
01:51:27
>> ALDERMAN THOMAS.
01:51:28
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I STAND
01:51:29
TOO IN SUPPORT OF THIS
01:51:36
RESOLUTION. I THANK MY ESTEEM COLLEAGUE
01:51:37
FOR BRINGING YOU BEFORE US
01:51:40
TODAY. YOU ARE THE EXAMPLE OF THE
01:51:41
LEADERSHIP THAT I'VE BEEN SPEAKING
01:51:45
OF ALL DAY TODAY. SPORTS GIVES YOU THE
01:51:46
CHICAGO GRIT, THE STRATEGIC
01:51:53
THINKING, THE ANALYTICAL THINKING AND
01:51:54
THE PLANNING THAT WE'RE
01:52:02
TEACHING
01:52:04
OUR YOUTH. CASEY IS AN EXAMPLE YOU GET
01:52:05
THAT KIND OF TEACHING WHEN
01:52:08
YOU'RE YOUNG. YOU BECOME A LEADER AND
01:52:09
ENTREPRENEUR. YOU ALSO BRING
01:52:11
IT FORWARD TO THE NEXT GENERATION.
01:52:12
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND THANK
01:52:13
YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO.
01:52:23
>> ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL, I WANT
01:52:24
TO CONGRATULATE FOR ALL
01:52:27
YOUR FINE WORK. ALDERMAN AUSTIN ON THE
01:52:28
MOTION.
01:52:30
>> IF WE CAN GIVE CASEY A ROUND OF
01:52:31
APPLAUSE.
01:52:39
[APPLAUSE] THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I
01:52:40
LIKE THIS TO BE PASSED.
01:52:48
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION. SO ORDERED.
01:53:34
>> COMMUNICATIONS.
01:53:45
>> A SERIES OF COMMUNICATIONS TO
01:53:46
HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
01:53:50
CITY OF CHICAGO. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
01:53:51
AT THE REQUEST OF THE
01:53:54
COMMISSIONER OF PLANNING AND
01:53:55
DEVELOPMENT, I TRANSMIT HERE WITH
01:54:01
ORDINANCE REGARDING -- YOUR FAVORABLE
01:54:02
CONSIDERATION WILL BE
01:54:06
APPRECIATED. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE
01:54:07
REQUEST OF THE COMMISSIONER
01:54:09
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, I TRANSMIT
01:54:10
HERE WITH ORDINANCE WITH PRIVATE
01:54:18
BANK AND TRUST. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
01:54:19
THROUGH REQUEST OF
01:54:20
COMMISSIONER
01:54:21
AND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, I TRANSFER
01:54:22
WITH GOVERNMENT ALLEGRAS
01:54:30
--
01:54:35
REQUEST TO COMPTROLLER, I TRANSMIT HERE
01:54:36
WITH ORDINANCE EXECUTION OF
01:54:40
GOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT WITH THE ILLINOIS
01:54:41
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE.
01:54:47
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AT THE WITH OF THE
01:54:48
CORPORATION COUNCIL, I
01:55:01
TRANSMIT HERE WITH THE ORDINANCE
01:55:02
ESTABLISHING FUNDS FOR VICTIMS. THE
01:55:10
REQUEST OF THE BUDGET DIRECTOR I
01:55:11
TRANSMIT HERE WITH THE AMENDMENT.
01:55:15
YOUR CONSIDERATION OF THIS ORDINANCE
01:55:16
WILL BE APPRECIATED RAHM EMANUEL
01:55:22
MAYOR. I TRANSMIT HERE WITH THE
01:55:23
ADJUSTMENT YEAR CDBG ORDINANCE.
01:55:32
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AT THE REQUEST OF
01:55:33
THE COMMISSIONER OF
01:55:36
TRANSPORTATION, I TRANSFER HERE WITH THE
01:55:37
ORDINANCE OF THE MUNICIPAL
01:55:44
CODE. YOUR ORDINANCE WILL BE
01:55:45
APPRECIATED. AT THE REQUEST OF THE
01:55:52
COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION, I
01:55:53
TRANSMIT HERE WITH ALDERMAN -- THIS
01:56:01
ORDINANCE WILL BE APPRECIATED BY RAHM
01:56:02
EMANUEL MAYOR. LADIES AND
01:56:44
GENTLEMEN, REQUEST OF THE COMMISSIONER
01:56:45
OF WATER MANAGEMENT, I
01:56:46
TRANSMIT
01:56:47
HERE WITH ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE
01:56:48
EXECUTION OF EASEMENT AGREEMENT
01:56:52
REGARDING PROPERTY. YOUR CONSIDERATION
01:56:53
OF THIS ORDINANCE WILL BE
01:56:58
APPRECIATED. THE REQUEST OF THE
01:56:59
COMMISSIONER OF PLANNING AND
01:57:04
DEVELOPMENT, AUTHORIZING THE GOVERNMENT
01:57:05
AGREEMENT WITH THE CHICAGO
01:57:08
HOUSING AUTHORITY. YOUR CONSIDERATION OF
01:57:09
THIS ORDINANCE WILL BE
01:57:18
APPRECIATED. TRANSMIT HERE WITH
01:57:19
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION
01:57:21
OF LEASE RENEWAL AGREEMENT. YOUR
01:57:22
FAVORITABLE CONSIDERATION WILL BE
01:57:27
APPRECIATED LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AT THE
01:57:28
-- YOUR CONSIDERATION OF THIS
01:57:39
ORDINANCE WILL BE APPRECIATED. VERY
01:57:40
TRULY YOURS RAHM EMANUEL MAYOR.
01:57:48
I TRANSMIT HERE WITH AN ORDINANCE WITH
01:57:49
AGREEMENT. IN TRANSMIT WITH
01:58:15
APPOINTMENTS AND SPECIAL SERVICES AREA,
01:58:16
THESE APPOINTMENTS WILL BE
01:58:22
APPRECIATED. I CITY CLERK HEREBY INFORM
01:58:23
THE CITY COUNCIL THAT THE
01:58:41
FOLLOWING DOCUMENT WAS FILED MY OFFICE.
01:58:42
I CITY CLERK ALSO INFORMED
01:58:54
THE CITY COUNCIL THAT ALL OF THOSE
01:58:55
ORDINANCES WHICH WERE PASSED BY
01:58:58
THE
01:58:59
CITY COUNCIL ON MARCH 18, 2015 AND
01:59:00
REQUIRED TO BE PUBLISH OR PUBLISH
01:59:10
ED
01:59:14
PUBLISHED
01:59:16
PUBLISHED
01:59:17
IN PAMPHLET FORM. ZONING -- CLAIMS
01:59:18
AGAINST THE CITY OF CHICAGO WHICH
01:59:29
ARE REFERRED TO CITY AND FINANCE.
01:59:49
>> ALDERMAN SOLIS.
01:59:50
>> THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR. I LIKE TO ASK
01:59:51
--
01:59:56
>> ONE MOMENT.
02:00:11
>> CORRECTION FOR THE RECORD. LADIES AND
02:00:12
GENTLEMEN THE REQUEST
02:00:13
OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,
02:00:14
TRANSMIT HERE WITH ORDINANCE
02:00:19
AUTHORIZING ROTARY AND LANDINGS IN
02:00:20
CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONFERENCE.
02:00:25
THIS SHOULD BE REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON
02:00:26
BUDGET AND GOVERNMENT
02:00:33
OPERATION.
02:00:34
>> ALDERMAN SOLIS.
02:00:35
>> AGAIN, THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I
02:00:36
WOULD LIKE TO TAKE LEAVE
02:00:44
OF THE BODY TO HAVE A RESOLUTION
02:00:45
HONORING CHILDREN.
02:00:51
>> CLERK PLEASE READ THE RESOLUTION.
02:00:52
>> WHEREAS MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER
02:00:53
PLACE BEGINS WITH YOUNG
02:00:56
CHILDREN. THE GREATEST GIFT WE WILL EVER
02:00:57
KNOW AS A CHILD TO LOVE AND
02:01:01
GROW. CHILDREN ARE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
02:01:02
WHO NEED EMOTIONAL AND
02:01:05
PHYSICAL STABILITY AND SHOULD NOT
02:01:06
ORDINARILY BE SEPARATED FROM THEIR
02:01:09
PARENTS. WHEREAS CHILDREN NEED A SAFE
02:01:10
AND LOVING ENVIRONMENT TO
02:01:11
GROW,
02:01:12
LEARN, EXCEL AND BE HAPPY. THEY ARE
02:01:13
BRILLIANT AND INGENIOUS IN THEIR
02:01:19
OWN WAY. THEY STRIVE TO BE INDEPENDENT
02:01:20
YET NEED THEIR FAMILY TO
02:01:22
GUIDE
02:01:23
AND CARE FOR THEM. THEIR CHILDHOOD IS
02:01:24
FILLED WITH BICYCLES AS WELL
02:01:26
AS
02:01:28
BUMPS AND BRUISES. WHEREAS THE UNITED
02:01:29
STATES SHOULD HAVE AN
02:01:30
ESTABLISHED NATIONAL DATE TO RECOGNIZE
02:01:31
THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND VALUE OF
02:01:37
ITS CHILDREN, CHILDREN ARE A PRECIOUS
02:01:38
TREASURE. WHEREAS APRIL 30TH,
02:01:44
CHILDREN'S DAY, RECOGNIZES AND
02:01:45
ACKNOWLEDGES EVERY CHILD ON EARTH.
02:01:48
THIS DAY COMMEMORATES OF LEAVES OF OUR
02:01:49
FUTURE PRIDE AND JOY.
02:02:00
WHEREAS
02:02:01
MORE THAN 4000 CHILDREN AND THEIR
02:02:02
FAMILIES ATTEND AND CELEBRATING
02:02:06
YOUNG AMERICAN PARADE, THE PARADE
02:02:07
STRIVES TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT
02:02:09
THE
02:02:10
IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION FOR THEIR
02:02:11
CHILDREN. THIS YEAR'S PARADE THEME
02:02:15
IS EDUCATION. EVERY CHILD EVERY DREAM.
02:02:16
WHEREAS THIS YEAR THE
02:02:20
CHICAGO
02:02:21
PARADE WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY APRIL
02:02:22
25TH, 2015 KICKING OFF ON
02:02:29
18TH STREET AND BLUE ISLAND AVENUE,
02:02:30
FOLLOWED BY A FIESTA. WHEREAS
02:02:37
BY CELEBRATING APRIL 30TH, WE ARE MAKING
02:02:38
A COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN
02:02:42
THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO LISTEN, TEACH
02:02:43
AND NURTURE THEM. NOW
02:02:46
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, THAT WE, THE
02:02:47
MAYOR AND THE MEMBERS OF THE
02:02:52
CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL ASSEMBLED THIS 15TH
02:02:53
DAY OF APRIL 2015 TO
02:03:00
PROCLAIM APRIL 30TH TO BE DAY OF THE
02:03:01
CHILD IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO.
02:03:07
>> ALDERMAN SOLIS.
02:03:08
>> AGAIN THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. I
02:03:09
THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT OUR
02:03:14
MOST PRECIOUS AND VALUABLE TREASURE THAT
02:03:15
WE HAVE THAT ARE THE FUTURE
02:03:18
OF OUR FAMILY, THE FUTURE OF OUR
02:03:19
COMMUNITIES, THE FUTURE OF OUR
02:03:22
COUNTRY IS OUR CHILDREN. HERE IN
02:03:23
CHICAGO, I THINK WE HAVE MANY
02:03:26
EVENTS
02:03:27
THAT SORT OF CELEBRATE THAT. I CAN THINK
02:03:28
OF NOT ONLY OUR LATINO
02:03:33
COMMUNITY THAT CELEBRATED MY WARD, I
02:03:34
ALSO THINK ABOUT THE BUD PARADE
02:03:38
THAT IS CELEBRATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE IN
02:03:39
THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN
02:03:42
COMMUNITY. THERE IS A TREMENDOUS
02:03:43
TRADITION AND LEGACY THAT IS MOST
02:03:49
LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES. ESPECIALLY IN
02:03:50
THE COUNTRY OF MEXICO. THAT
02:03:54
TRADITION IS TO CELEBRATE THE DAY OF THE
02:03:55
CHILD. JUST THE WAY WE
02:03:59
CELEBRATE OUR MANY SIGNIFICANT FIGURES
02:04:00
IN OUR COUNTRY HERE IN THE
02:04:03
U.S., LIKE MOTHER'S DAY, FATHER'S DAY.
02:04:04
THIS TRADITION, WE WOULD
02:04:12
LIKE
02:04:14
TO SEE THIS TRADITION TO COME A TYPE OF
02:04:15
CELEBRATION. WHAT THIS
02:04:20
TRADITION ASK HER, MENDOZA IS
02:04:21
SPONSORING, COSPONSOR WITH ME ALONG
02:04:26
WITH
02:04:27
THE MAYOR, THIS REALLY TRIES TO
02:04:28
RECOGNIZE THAT. ESPECIALLY IF YOU
02:04:32
CONSIDER SOME THE VIOLENCE THAT HAS
02:04:33
HAPPENED IN OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT
02:04:37
JUST HERE IN CHICAGO BUT ACROSS THE
02:04:38
COUNTRY, LET'S COMMEMORATE THE
02:04:42
CHILD. LET'S COMMEMORATE THE VALUE THAT
02:04:43
THEY BRING TO OUR FUTURE.
02:04:47
LET'S MAKE IT OFFICIAL THAT WE HAVE THIS
02:04:48
TYPE OF DAY THAT IS
02:04:50
CELEBRATED NOT ONLY HERE IN CHICAGO BUT
02:04:51
ACROSS THE STATE AND ACROSS
02:04:54
OUR COUNTRY.
02:04:56
>> THANK YOU ALDERMAN CULLERTON.
02:04:59
>> THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. I RISE IN
02:05:00
SUPPORT OF THIS
02:05:05
RESOLUTION. I PROBABLY WEAR THIS BLUE
02:05:06
RIBBON TODAY IN HONOR OF THE
02:05:10
NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH.
02:05:11
I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT
02:05:15
MARYVILLE CRISIS NURSERY FOR THE PAST 34
02:05:16
YEARS. AN INSTITUTION THAT
02:05:22
PROVIDES CARE FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE OF
02:05:23
OUR CHILDREN. THEY PROVIDE
02:05:25
SERVICES FOR ALL THE CONSTITUENTS
02:05:26
THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF CHICAGO. I
02:05:28
WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU, MAYOR AND MY
02:05:29
COLLEAGUES TO VISIT THE CRISES
02:05:33
NURSERY CENTER AT YOUR EARLIEST
02:05:34
OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING
02:05:39
FORTH THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU.
02:05:41
>> ANYBODY WISH TO SPEAK? IF NOT, I WANT
02:05:42
TO JOIN THE ALDERMAN
02:05:48
AND MENDOZA AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD
02:05:49
WORK. IT'S THE MOST
02:05:52
IMPORTANT
02:05:54
RESOURCE WE HAVE, OUR CHILDREN. THANK
02:05:55
YOU. [APPLAUSE]
02:06:45
>> COMMITTEE REPORTS.
02:06:47
>> COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. ITEM NUMBER ONE
02:06:48
ON THE AGENDA
02:06:53
AUTHORIZING DONATION OF AMBULANCE AND
02:06:54
MUNICIPALITY. I MOVE TO TURN
02:07:02
THE RECOMMENDATION TO THE COMMITTEE BY
02:07:03
THE ROLL CALL VOTE.
02:07:05
>> CALL THE ROLL.
02:07:09
>>
02:07:13
>> BURKE, MARINO, FIORETTI, DOWELL,
02:07:14
BURN, HAIRSTON, SAWYER,
02:07:25
HOLMES, HARRIS, BEALE, POPE, CARDENAS,
02:07:26
QUINN, BURKE, FOULKES, THOMAS,
02:07:47
LANE, O'SHEA, COCHRAN, BROOKINS, MUNOZ,
02:07:48
CHANDLER, SOLIS, BURNETT,
02:08:06
ERVIN, GRAHAM, SUAREZ, WAGUESPACK, MELL,
02:08:07
AUSTIN, COLON, MITTS,
02:08:25
CULLERTON, PATRICK O'CONNOR, MARY
02:08:26
O'CONNOR, RILEY, SMITH, TUNNEY,
02:08:53
PAWAR, MOORE, SILVERSTEIN. BURNS AYE,
02:08:54
SAWYER VOTES AYE, ALDERMAN
02:09:12
SPOSATO VOTES AYE.
02:09:14
>> THERE ARE 47 AYES AND ZERO NAYS, THE
02:09:15
MOTION CARRY THE ALDERMAN
02:09:22
VOTE.
02:09:23
>> I MOVE TO RECONSIDER THE VOTE.
02:09:25
>> ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE
02:09:26
ALDERMAN'S MOTION, SAY AYE.
02:09:31
THOSE OPPOSED SAY NO. MOTION FAILS.
02:09:32
ALDERMAN BURKE.
02:09:34
>> I LIKE TO CALL ITEMS TWO, THREE AND
02:09:35
FOUR JOINTLY. THESE ARE
02:09:41
SPECIAL SERVICE AREAS THAT AFFECT THE
02:09:42
34, 42 AND EIGHTH WARD. I
02:09:49
APPROVED APPOINTMENTS BY THE SAME ROLL
02:09:50
CALL.
02:09:55
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION. SO ORDERED.
02:09:58
>> ITEM NUMBER FIVE INCLUDES A, B, C AND
02:09:59
THREE SETTLEMENTS OF THE
02:10:05
CASES REQUESTED BY THE LAW DEPARTMENT.
02:10:06
STATE OF MCDONALD. THE
02:10:20
CASE, 14C2041 AND THE BRUCE CASE, STYLE
02:10:21
13L8210. I CURRENT FOR
02:10:29
RECOMMENDATION BY THE SAME ROLL CALL
02:10:30
ALONG WITH THE LAST MOTION.
02:10:35
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
02:10:38
>> ITEM NUMBER SIX IS A CLASS L
02:10:39
DESIGNATION FOR PROPERTY AT 1300
02:10:45
NORTH DEARBORN. I MOVE TO CONFIRM THE
02:10:46
RECOMMENDATION OF
02:10:48
BY THE SAME ROLL
02:10:51
CALL.
02:10:52
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
02:10:54
>> LIKE WISE YOUR HONOR, I MAKE THE SAME
02:10:55
MOTION WITH REGARD TO
02:10:58
ITEM NUMBER SEVEN WHICH IS REDEVELOPMENT
02:10:59
AGREEMENT IN THE THIRD WARD.
02:11:05
NUMBER EIGHT WHICH IS REDEVELOPMENT
02:11:06
AGREEMENT IN THE 28TH WARD,
02:11:11
NUMBER NINE IS A MULTIFAMILY MORTGAGE
02:11:12
FAMILY NOTE FOR DEVELOPMENT IN
02:11:15
THE FIFTH WARD. MOVE TO CONFIRM THE
02:11:16
RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE COMMITTEE
02:11:22
OF THE SAME ROLL CALL ON ITEMS SIX,
02:11:23
SEVEN, EIGHT AND 9.
02:11:31
>> SO ORDERED.
02:11:32
>> ITEM NUMBER TEN IS A TRANSFER
02:11:33
TAX-EXEMPT BOND CAP FROM THE
02:11:37
CITY TO THE CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY
02:11:38
FOR A PROPERTY IN THE 24TH
02:11:41
WARD. UNLESS THERE'S A OBJECTION, I MOVE
02:11:42
TO CONFIRM THE
02:11:47
RECOMMENDATION. SAME LAST MOTION TO
02:11:48
RECONSIDER.
02:11:49
>> HEARING TO OBJECTION.
02:11:50
>> UNLESS THERE'S OBJECTION, I MOVE TO
02:11:51
THE RECOMMENDATION TO THE
02:11:55
COMMITTEE ON ITEMS 11 THROUGH 17.
02:11:59
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION. SO ORDER.
02:12:03
>> THAT CONCLUDES FINANCE REPORT.
02:12:06
>> THANK YOU. ALDERMAN AUSTIN ON BUDGET.
02:12:09
>> THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. REPORTING
02:12:10
FOR THE COMMITTEE ON
02:12:12
BUDGET AND GOVERNMENT OPERATION, ITEM
02:12:13
NUMBER ONE, THE REPORT
02:12:17
APPROVING
02:12:21
THE APPOINTMENT OF JULIAN W. STRATTON
02:12:22
FOR A TERM ENDING FEBRUARY
02:12:29
BETWEEN 13, 2016. I MOVE THAT THE CITY
02:12:30
COUNCIL CONCUR AS ITEM NUMBER
02:12:35
ONE OF THE COMMITTEE FINANCE REPORT.
02:12:37
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
02:12:40
>> ITEM NUMBER TWO, A SUBSTITUTE
02:12:41
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A SUB
02:12:45
LIMITTAL APPROPRIATION AND AMENDMENT TO
02:12:46
THE YEAR 2015 ANNUAL
02:12:49
APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NECESSARY TO
02:12:50
REFLECT AN INCREASE IN THE
02:12:51
AMOUNT
02:12:52
OF FUNDS RECEIVED FROM FEDERAL, STATE
02:12:53
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCY.
02:12:56
SAME
02:12:57
MOTION IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION.
02:13:00
>> NO OBJECTION.
02:13:01
>> ITEM NUMBER THREE, A SUBSTITUTE
02:13:02
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN
02:13:06
AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 2-92 OF THE
02:13:07
MUNICIPAL CODE OF CHICAGO NECESSARY
02:13:11
TO ESTABLISH A GUIDELINE FOR PROJECT
02:13:12
AREA SUBCONTRACTOR. SAME MOTION.
02:13:17
>> SO ORDERED.
02:13:18
>> ITEM NUMBER FOUR, A SUBSTITUTE
02:13:19
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN
02:13:22
AMENDMENT TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF
02:13:23
CHICAGO, NECESSARY FOR TECHNICAL
02:13:27
CORRECTIONS TO VARIOUS SECTION. SAME
02:13:28
MOTION.
02:13:31
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION.
02:13:32
>> THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. THAT
02:13:33
CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
02:13:37
>> THANK YOU. WE NOW GO TO ALDERMAN
02:13:38
TUNNEY.
02:13:45
>> REPORTING ON ECONOMIC CAPITAL AND
02:13:46
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT.
02:13:49
HAVING UNDER CONSIDERATION SIX ITEMS.
02:13:50
FIRST ITEM WAS A DIRECT
02:13:54
INTRODUCTION INTRODUCED BY MAYOR RAHM
02:13:55
EMANUEL FOR CLASS 6B RESOLUTION
02:14:00
FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4221 NORTH
02:14:01
NORMANDY. CLASS 6B RESOLUTION
02:14:09
INTRODUCED BY THE LAST CITY COUNCIL.
02:14:10
ALDERMAN JAMES BALCER, THE
02:14:19
PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3800 SOUTH MORGAN.
02:14:20
FOR THE RESPECT LOCATED AT
02:14:28
3843 SOUTH POLASKI. IF THERE'S NO
02:14:29
OBJECTION, I MOVE THE PASSAGE OF
02:14:44
THESE ITEMS BY THE LAST MOST FAVORABLE
02:14:45
ROLL CALL VOTE ON COMMITTEE
02:14:48
AND
02:14:51
FINANCE AND ASSOCIATE MOTION TO
02:14:52
RECONSIDER. HOWEVER, I WOULD ASK THE
02:14:57
BODY THAT I WOULD BE RECUSING MYSELF,
02:14:58
ABSTAIN, I'M SORRY. I AND
02:15:07
ALDERMAN MICHELLE SMITH ABSTAINING FOR
02:15:08
RULES 14 FOR THE ITEM LOCATED
02:15:16
AT 5440 NORTH NORTHWEST HIGHWAY.
02:15:22
>> SO ORDERED.
02:15:28
>> MR. PRESIDENT, REPORTING FOR YOUR
02:15:29
COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND
02:15:32
PROTECTION, WHICH MEETING WAS HELD APRIL
02:15:33
14, 2015. IN REGARDING THE
02:15:38
APPOINTMENT OF DR. JUDY, COMMISSIONER OF
02:15:39
HEALTH. IF THERE'S NO
02:15:43
OBJECTION, I MOVE TO THE COMMITTEE OF
02:15:44
FINANCE.
02:15:48
>> NO OBJECTION. SO ORDERED. IS THAT
02:15:49
YOUR COMMITTEE? WOULD
02:15:56
LIKE TO SAY, CONGRATULATIONS. YOU'RE
02:15:57
HERE OBVIOUSLY WITH YOUR
02:16:02
MOTHER,
02:16:04
DAUGHTER. I THANKS THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR
02:16:05
YOUR YEARS OF SERVICE AND
02:16:09
NOW
02:16:10
BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE
02:16:11
DEPARTMENT. YOU HAVE DONE IT BOTH
02:16:17
THROUGH THE EBOLA SITUATION. YOU'VE DONE
02:16:18
IT FOR YEARS. I WANT TO
02:16:19
WISH YOU THE BEST AS THE NEW HEALTH
02:16:20
COMMISSIONER. CONGRATULATIONS.
02:16:29
[APPLAUSE]
02:16:39
>> SUAREZ, HOUSING.
02:16:40
>> MR. PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE CITY
02:16:41
COUNCIL, REPORTING TO THE
02:16:45
COMMITTEE OF HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE. I
02:16:46
HEREBY RECOMMEND THE
02:16:53
FOLLOWING ORDINANCES. LEASE FIFTH WARD,
02:16:54
ITEM TWO AMENDMENT, 900 EAST
02:17:06
103RD STREET. SUBLEASE 1301 PENNSYLVANIA
02:17:07
AVENUE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
02:17:13
ITEM FIVE, GRANT EASEMENT REQUIRING THE
02:17:14
ACQUISITION OF PARTIAL 32ND
02:17:23
AND 34TH WARD. ITEM SIX ACQUISITION OF
02:17:24
PEDESTRIAN PATH TO
02:17:29
FOUNDATION INC. IN THE THIRD WOULD.
02:17:30
FIVE, ORDINANCE AT THE FOLLOWING
02:17:36
LOCATIONS, 5041 SOUTH BISHOP 20TH WARD.
02:17:37
ITEM NINE, 4345. ITEM 12,
02:17:56
NEGOTIATE A SALE OF SOUTH DREXLER
02:17:57
BOULEVARD. ITEM 14, NEGOTIATE A
02:18:09
SALE AT 4529 WEST FULTON STREET.
02:18:10
NEGOTIATE A SALE AT SOUTH LOUMA
02:18:25
STREET. ITEM 17, NEGOTIATE A SALE AT
02:18:26
2081 SOUTH STATE STREET
02:18:32
NORTHWARD. APPROVING THE NEGOTIATE A
02:18:33
SALE AT 2606 WEST COURTLAND
02:18:40
STREET. SALE OF 2448 WEST COURTLAND
02:18:41
STREET FIRST WARD. ITEM 20,
02:18:44
SALE
02:18:47
OF 6038 SOUTH ST. LAWRENCE AVENUE. ITEM
02:18:48
21, SALE OF -- ITEM 22,
02:19:10
NEIGHBORING SPACE IN FOLLOWING LOCATION.
02:19:11
3323 NORTH DRAKE AVENUE.
02:19:25
1900 SOUTH AVENUE 19TH STREET AND 34TH
02:19:26
WARD. NEIGHBORING SPACE AT
02:19:35
2638 EAST 93RD STREET. ITEM 24,
02:19:36
NEGOTIATE A SALE 1136 TO SOUTH
02:19:46
WABASH AVENUE FOURTH WARD. AUTHORIZING
02:19:47
THE RELEASE OF ORIGINAL
02:19:57
COVENANT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED ORDINANCE.
02:19:58
ITEM 26, NEGOTIATE A SALE AT
02:20:10
225 -- ITEM 28, ORDINANCE INTRODUCED BY
02:20:11
SUAREZ, AMENDING MUNICIPAL
02:20:31
CODE CONCERNING INFORMATION, DISCLOSURE
02:20:32
FORM AND KEEPING CHICAGO
02:20:35
RENTING ORDINANCE. I MOVE THESE ITEMS
02:20:36
PASSED BY THE SAME VOTE ON
02:20:39
COMMITTEE OF FINANCE REPORT.
02:20:47
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION. NEXT COMMITTEE,
02:20:48
LICENSE OF CONSUMER
02:20:53
PROTECTION.
02:20:54
>> THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. TO THE
02:20:55
MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
02:20:57
I REPORTING FOR THE COMMITTEE ON LICENSE
02:20:58
AND CONSUMER PROTECTION.
02:21:02
HELD A MEETING ON APRIL 14, 2015. ITEM
02:21:03
NUMBER 02015 WAS AMENDED
02:21:12
SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE REGARDING SPECIAL
02:21:13
EVENT, FOODS AND INTERNET
02:21:18
MERCHANT LICENSE. ITEM WAS ORDINANCE TO
02:21:19
AMEND A MUNICIPAL CODE OF
02:21:27
CHICAGO. THERE ARE SEVEN ORDINANCES
02:21:28
REGARDING MORATORIUMS IN THE
02:21:33
20TH, 33TH, 28TH, 45TH AND 48TH WARD.
02:21:34
ITEM NUMBER 02014
02:21:42
REGARDING TORN AND RELOCATION OF
02:21:43
VEHICLES, THIS ORDINANCE PASS
02:21:53
COMMITTEE JANUARY 14, 2015. THESE
02:21:54
RECOMMENDATIONS WERE CONCURRED BY
02:22:02
A
02:22:03
VOTE. I MOVE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL
02:22:04
CONCUR WITH RECOMMENDATIONS OF
02:22:08
THE
02:22:11
STIFF LICENSE COMMITTEE.
02:22:12
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
02:22:14
>> THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT FOR THE
02:22:15
LICENSE COMMITTEE TO THE CITY
02:22:18
COUNCIL MR. PRESIDENT. THANK YOU.
02:22:21
>> ALDERMAN BURNETT ON PEDESTRIAN
02:22:22
TRAFFIC SAFETY.
02:22:23
>> THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. REPORTING ON
02:22:24
YOUR COMMITTEE ON
02:22:28
PEDESTRIAN AND TRAFFIC SAFETY. BEFORE
02:22:29
THE COMMITTEE ROUTINE TRAFFIC
02:22:34
ITEMS THAT PASSED AND ROUTINE ITEMS THAT
02:22:35
DID NOT PASS. IF THERE BE
02:22:37
NO
02:22:38
OBJECTION, YOU MOVE FOR THE PASSAGE OF
02:22:39
THESE ORDINANCES. THAT
02:22:43
CONCLUDES MY REPORT, THANK YOU.
02:22:46
>> SO ORDERED. NEXT COMMITTEE IS
02:22:47
ALDERMAN MOORE ON SPECIAL
02:22:49
EVENTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS.
02:22:52
>> THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT. MEMBERS OF
02:22:53
THE CITY COUNCIL,
02:22:56
REPORTING FOR YOUR COMMITTEE ON SPECIAL
02:22:57
EVENTS, CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND
02:23:04
RECREATION. CONSIDERING TWO ORDINANCES.
02:23:05
I HEREBY RECOMMEND THAT THE
02:23:14
SPECIAL EVENTS ORDINANCE SPONSORED BY
02:23:15
MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL PASS THE
02:23:20
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS AND
02:23:21
SPECIAL EVENTS TO HOST EXHIBITS,
02:23:27
PROGRAMS, FESTIVALS AS WELL AS CULTURAL
02:23:28
AND ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS.
02:23:32
THIS ORDINANCE PASSED UNANIMOUSLY AT THE
02:23:33
COMMITTEE MEETING. THE
02:23:40
COMMITTEE CONSIDERS OPEN SPACE IMPACT
02:23:41
FEES.
02:23:44
I DO HEREBY RECOMMEND THAT THE FOLLOWING
02:23:45
EXPENDITURES DO HEREBY
02:23:52
PASS, VARIOUS SCHOOL, GARDEN PROJECTS IN
02:23:53
THE FIFTH WARD. DANIEL
02:23:55
WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE 24TH
02:23:56
WARD. KELLER REGIONAL GIFTED
02:24:00
CENTER IN THE 19TH WARD AND LOCKE
02:24:01
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE 36TH
02:24:07
WARD. THESE EXPENDITURES PASS
02:24:08
UNANIMOUSLY BY ALL THE COMMITTEE
02:24:10
MEMBERS AT THE COMMITTEE MEETING. IF
02:24:11
THERE'S NO OBJECTION, I MOVE
02:24:13
FOR
02:24:14
PASSAGE OF THESE ITEMS BY THE LAST MOST
02:24:15
FAVORABLE ROLL CALL VOTE ON
02:24:18
THE COMMITTEE OF FINANCE AND ASSOCIATED
02:24:19
SUCCESSFUL MOTION IT
02:24:22
RECONSIDER.
02:24:23
>> HEARING NO OBJECTIONS SO ORDERED.
02:24:26
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT
02:24:31
>> ALDERMAN BEALE. COMMITTEE ON
02:24:32
TRANSPORTATION.
02:24:33
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. REPORTING
02:24:34
ON YOUR COMMITTEE ON
02:24:37
TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WAY. MEETING
02:24:38
HELD ON APRIL 13TH 2015.
02:24:42
THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCE PASSED BY A
02:24:43
MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS. PAGE 1
02:24:49
THROUGH 33 INCLUDING 384 ORDINANCES.
02:24:50
INTRODUCED BY THE LOCAL
02:24:59
ALDERMAN. ON PAGE 54 ITEM FOUR, ALDERMAN
02:25:00
TUNNEY HAS ABSTAIN FROM
02:25:06
VOTING UNDER RULE 14. ON PAGE 37,
02:25:07
THROUGH 54 INCLUDE 215 ORDINANCES
02:25:18
FOR CAFES. ON PAGE 55 THROUGH 62,
02:25:19
INCLUDE FIVE AMENDMENTS FOR
02:25:25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS INTRODUCED BY THE
02:25:26
LOCAL ALDERMAN ON PAGE 63
02:25:31
INCLUDES DEDICATION IN THE TENTH WARD.
02:25:32
ONE PROPOSED RELEASE OF AN
02:25:40
INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM, IN THE 27TH WARD.
02:25:41
ONE PROPOSED STREET OPENING
02:25:44
IN THE 27TH WARD. ONE PROPOSED TIME
02:25:45
EXTENSION ORDINANCE FOR A
02:25:50
VACATION IN THE 39TH WARD. PLEASE NOTE
02:25:51
THAT THE COMMITTEE'S
02:25:56
RECOMMENDATIONS WAS THAT ON PAGE 22 ITEM
02:25:57
10. I REQUEST THESE MATTERS
02:26:06
BE PLACED. THAN CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
02:26:07
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION. SO ORDERED.
02:26:08
ALDERMAN SOLIS. COMMITTEE
02:26:15
ON ZONING.
02:26:16
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. PRESENTING
02:26:17
A SERIES OF REPORT FOR
02:26:22
COMMITTEE ON ZONE AND LANDMARK BUILDING
02:26:23
STANDARDS. THE FOLLOWING
02:26:27
ORDINANCES WERE PASSED BY A MAJOR OF THE
02:26:28
MEMBERS PRESENT, PAGE 1
02:26:34
THROUGH 4 CONTAINS MAPS AND PAGES AND
02:26:35
FOUR AND FIVE CONTAINS
02:26:38
APPLICATIONS FOR LIFE SIGNS AND LANDMARK
02:26:39
FEE WAIVERS. BEFORE YOU
02:26:44
MOVE, I LIKE TO SAY TODAY THAT ALDERMAN
02:26:45
WAGUESPACK AND MUNOZ WOULD
02:26:53
LIKE TO DEFER ON ITEMS NUMBER 18279.
02:27:04
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION, SO ORDERED.
02:27:05
AGREED CALENDAR. ALDERMAN
02:27:18
BURKE.
02:27:25
>> I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE LEAVE OF THE
02:27:26
BODY TO ADD TO THE CONSENT
02:27:32
CALENDAR A MATTER FOR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
02:27:33
FOR MIDDLE EAST FOR ALDERMAN
02:27:44
MICHELLE HARRIS FOR ALDERMAN BOB
02:27:45
FIORETTI, ALDERMAN DANNY SOLIS,
02:27:53
ALDERMAN BALCER, ALDERMAN MARINA,
02:27:54
ALDERMAN DOWELL, ALDERMAN TUNNEY,
02:28:01
ALDERMAN CARRIE AUSTIN, TWO MATTERS.
02:28:05
WITH THOSE ADDITIONS, YOUR HONOR, I
02:28:06
WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THE
02:28:13
ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT THE OMINOUS.
02:28:17
>> HEARING NO OBJECTION, SO ORDERED. NEW
02:28:18
BUSINESS, THE CLERK
02:28:28
WILL CALL THE WARDS BEGINNING WITH THE
02:28:29
FIRST.
02:28:36
>> CLAIMS, FREE PERMITS EXEMPTIONS REFER
02:28:37
TO KEY ON FINANCE.
02:28:41
ZONING AMENDMENTS REFER TO COMMITTEE AND
02:28:42
LANDMARKS. TRAFFIC
02:28:45
REGULATIONS REFER TO THE COMMITTEE ON
02:28:46
PEDESTRIAN AND TRAFFIC SAFETY.
02:28:49
GRANTS OF PRIVILEGE REFER TO THE
02:28:50
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND
02:28:53
PUBLIC WAY. ALDERMAN FIORETTI PROPOSED
02:28:54
ORDINANCE FOR REQUIREMENT FOR
02:29:16
COMMERCIAL DRIVEWAY ACCESS. ALDERMAN
02:29:17
BURNS, THOMAS, BOWL AND PAWAR
02:29:35
HAVE PROPOSED RESOLUTION FOR MORTGAGE
02:29:36
AND INCOME TAX. ALDERMAN BURKE
02:29:58
AND MOORE HAVE PROPOSED RESOLUTION
02:29:59
CALLING FOR ON -- ALDERMAN LANE
02:30:15
HAS
02:30:17
PROPOSED ORDER FOR PERMITS. ALDERMAN
02:30:18
COCHRAN HAS PROPOSED ORDINANCE
02:30:32
FOR PHYSICAL BARRIER REQUIREMENT FOR
02:30:33
EXPRESS CAR WASH. BURNETT
02:31:33
PROPOSED RESOLUTION FOR SUPPORT OF CLASS
02:31:34
B TAX INCENTIVE FOR 2050
02:31:38
WEST
02:31:43
WALNUT STREET. GRAHAM PROPOSED MUNICIPAL
02:31:44
CODE CONCERNING BOOTING OF
02:31:49
MOTOR VEHICLES WITH TRANSPORTATION AND
02:31:50
PUBLIC WAY. SUAREZ PROPOSED
02:32:09
ORDINANCE FOR PERMITS OF SIGNS -- COLON
02:32:10
PROPOSED ORDINANCE FOR
02:32:59
AMENDMENT MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING
02:33:00
BOOTING OF MOTOR VEHICLES. COLON
02:33:07
HAS PROPOSED ORDINANCE FOR EXEMPTION OF
02:33:08
BARRIER REQUIREMENT FOR DRIVE
02:33:15
DRIVEWAY ALLEY ACCESS. MITTS PROPOSED
02:33:16
ORDINANCE FOR MUNICIPAL CODE,
02:33:47
CONCERNING SPECIFIC TIMES FOR RECYCLING
02:33:48
FACILITIES. MITTS PROPOSED
02:33:55
FOR ANNOUNCE CALL CODES TO CORRECT
02:33:56
SUBSECTION AND ACCURACIES
02:34:01
CONCERNING LIQUOR SALES. REFER TO
02:34:02
COMMITTEE ON LICENSE AND CONSUMER
02:34:08
PROTECTION. MARY O'CONNOR PROPOSED
02:34:09
HONORARY STREET DESIGNATION.
02:34:51
REEL
02:34:53
LEE HAS PROPOSED ORDER FOR COMMISSIONER
02:34:54
OF TRANSPORTATION ORDERED TO
02:34:58
TERMINATE BARRIER PROTECTED BICYCLE LANE
02:34:59
ON PORTION OF WEST KINZEE
02:35:05
STREET. REFER TO COMMITTEE AND
02:35:06
TRANSPORTATION ON PUBLIC WAY. WITH
02:35:10
TWO COMMITTEES BEING CALLED, THE
02:35:11
COMMITTEE AND COMMITTEE ON TRAFFIC,
02:35:16
THE ORDINANCE WILL BE REFERRED TO RULES.
02:35:17
RILEY HAS PROPOSED ORDER
02:35:21
FOR
02:35:24
COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION TO
02:35:25
TERMINATE BARRIER BICYCLE LANE ON
02:35:27
PORTION OF WEST KINZEE. THAT'S THE ONE I
02:35:28
JUST DID. TUNNEY PROPOSED
02:35:38
ORDINANCE FOR THE EXEMPTION OF PHYSICAL
02:35:39
BARRIER REQUIREMENT FOR
02:35:44
DRIVEWAY BY ALLEY ACCIDENT FOR 1418 WEST
02:35:45
ADDISON LLC. TUNNEY
02:35:49
PROPOSED
02:35:50
ORDERS FOR PERMITS FOR SIGN BOARDS AND
02:35:51
LANDMARKS AND BUILDINGS.
02:36:07
PAWAR
02:36:09
PROPOSED -- PROPOSED ORDINANCE FOR
02:36:09
COMMERCIAL DRIVEWAY DRIVE BY
02:36:20
ALLEY
02:36:23
ACCIDENT. OSTERMAN PROPOSED ORDINANCE
02:36:24
FOR PHYSICAL BARRIER REARM,
02:36:30
COMMERCIAL DRIVEWAY ALLEY ACCIDENT.
02:36:31
OSTERMAN PROPOSED ORDINANCE FOR
02:37:13
THE EXEMPTION PHYSICAL BARRIER
02:37:14
REQUIREMENT COMMERCIAL DRIVEWAY
02:37:18
ACCIDENT. FOULKES PROPOSED ORDER FOR
02:37:19
PERMITS FOR TIME BOARDS.
02:37:33
CHANDLER PROPOSED FOR EXEMPTION PHYSICAL
02:37:34
BARRIER REQUIREMENT FOR
02:37:43
COMMERCIAL DRIVEWAY ACCIDENT.
02:37:44
>> ALDERMAN BURKE FOR APPROVAL OF THE
02:37:45
JOURNAL.
02:37:49
>> YOUR HONOR, SET UP A MOTION TO
02:37:50
APPROVE THE JOURNAL. I'M NOT
02:37:54
AWARE OF ANY CHANGES TO BE MADE.
02:37:55
>> ALL OF THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING
02:37:56
THE JOURNAL, SAY AYE. THE
02:38:06
MOTIONS CARRY. ALDERMAN AUSTIN.
02:38:10
>> THANK YOU MADAM PRESIDENT. ON BEHALF
02:38:11
OF ALDERMAN BURKE,
02:38:16
O'CONNOR, MARINO AND HARRIS AND MYSELF,
02:38:17
WE HAVE PROVIDED LUNCH FOR
02:38:20
THOSE ALDERMAN THAT ARE RETIRING. WE
02:38:21
WOULD ASK THAT ALL BREAK BREAD
02:38:25
WITH US THIS AFTERNOON. THANK YOU.
02:38:29
>> THANK YOU ALDERMAN AUSTIN.
02:38:33
>> UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
02:38:34
>> WE HAVE ONE MATTER THAT'S BEEN CALLED
02:38:35
UP. I BELIEVE ON THE
02:38:41
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC WAY.
02:38:42
I REFER TO ALDERMAN BEALE ON
02:38:51
THIS. AN AMENDMENT TO THE CODE TO ALLOW
02:38:52
REVIEW AND SUN SET
02:38:58
PROVISIONS
02:39:01
FOR TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. OKAY.
02:39:20
>> IF THERE'S NO MOTION, WE'LL PROCEED.
02:39:31
>> NO UNFINISHED.
02:39:32
>> ANY OTHER UNFINISHED BUSINESS?
02:39:33
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. DATE
02:39:52
AND TIME OF THE NEXT MEETING.
02:39:53
>> YOUR HONOR, I SET UP AN ORDINANCE
02:39:54
SETTING THE DATE AND TIME
02:39:59
FOR THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY
02:40:00
COUNCIL FOR MAY 6, 2015.
02:40:05
>> CLERK PLEASE READ THE ORDINANCE.
02:40:08
>> ALDERMAN BURKE HAS ORDINANCE SETTING
02:40:09
DATE AND TIME OF THE NEXT
02:40:11
MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
02:40:12
OF CHICAGO FOR WEDNESDAY MAY
02:40:16
6, 2015 AT 10:00 A.M. IN THE CITY
02:40:17
COUNCIL CHAMBER IN CITY HALL.
02:40:25
>> ROLL CALL ON.
02:40:32
>> DOWELL, BURNS, HARRIS, BEALE, BURKE,
02:40:33
FOULKES, THOMAS, LANE,
02:40:40
O'SHEA, COCHRAN, MUNOZ, CHANDLER, SOLIS,
02:40:41
BURNETT, GRAHAM, SUAREZ,
02:40:51
AUSTIN, COLON, MITTS, CULLERTON,
02:40:52
SILVERSTEIN. PRESIDENT PRO TEM.
02:41:07
>> ON THE OMINOUS, THERE ARE 47 YEAS AND
02:41:08
NO NAYS. ALDERMAN POPE.
02:41:13
>> YES MADAM PRESIDENT. I MOVE TO
02:41:14
RECONSIDER THE VOTE.
02:41:20
>> THE MOTION FAILS.
02:41:27
>> ALDERMAN BURKE ON MOTION TO ADJOURN.
02:41:29
>> NO FURTHER BUSINESS FOR THE BODY. DO
02:41:33
ADJOURN.
02:41:35
>> ALL THOSE IN FAVOR TO MOTION TO
02:41:36
ADJOURN, SAY AYE, OPPOSED.
02:41:39
THE MOTION IS CARRY. THE
02:41:41
COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.