Full Text of HR1084 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Dr. | 4 | | Quentin Young, who passed away on March 7, 2016 at the age of | 5 | | 92; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young lived in Chicago's Hyde Park | 7 | | neighborhood for most of his life and graduated from Hyde Park | 8 | | High School, where he was active in drama; he later attended | 9 | | the University of Chicago before serving in the United States | 10 | | Army during World War II; after getting his bachelor's degree | 11 | | from the University of Chicago in 1944, he received his medical | 12 | | degree from Northwestern University in 1947; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young began his medical training at | 14 | | Cook County Hospital and remained there until 1952; he then | 15 | | spent many years as a physician at Michael Reese Hospital on | 16 | | Chicago's South Side before returning to Cook County Hospital, | 17 | | where he became Chairman of Medicine in 1972; he remained there | 18 | | until 1981, working to improve the county public health | 19 | | system's economic vitality and its ability to help the poor and | 20 | | downtrodden; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young maintained a medical practice in | 22 | | Hyde Park into his mid-80s while keeping busy with many causes; |
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| 1 | | he served as the physician for Martin Luther King, Jr. during | 2 | | the civil rights leader's many stops in Chicago; he also had | 3 | | many other notable patients, including Mayor Harold | 4 | | Washington, columnist Mike Royko, and a young Barack Obama, a | 5 | | patient in the 1990s with whom he later consulted on health | 6 | | care policies; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young pushed to end discriminatory | 8 | | practices at Chicago-area hospitals in the 1950s, co-founded | 9 | | the Medical Committee for Human Rights in the 1960s, marched | 10 | | for civil rights and against war, and spent decades advocating | 11 | | for national health care; he was among the volunteers in the | 12 | | campaign to register black voters during Mississippi's Freedom | 13 | | Summer in 1964 and participated in one of the historic 1965 | 14 | | marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; as the founder and | 15 | | national chairman for the Medical Committee for Human Rights, | 16 | | he led efforts to provide medical care to campaign volunteers, | 17 | | civil rights workers, and anti-war protesters; he also took | 18 | | part in a 167-mile, 15-day walk across Illinois to promote | 19 | | universal health care in August of 2001, at the age of 77; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young was president of the Chicago | 21 | | Board of Health and the American Public Health Association and | 22 | | a co-founder of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group; | 23 | | and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young was preceded in death by his | 2 | | second wife, Ruth; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, Dr. Quentin Young is survived by his children, | 4 | | Polly, Michael, Ethan, Nancy, and Barbara; his stepchildren, | 5 | | William Weaver and Karen Weaver; and his nine grandchildren; | 6 | | therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 8 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 9 | | we, along with his family and friends, mourn the passing of Dr. | 10 | | Quentin Young; and be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to the family of Dr. Quentin Young as an expression | 13 | | of our sympathy.
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