Full Text of HR0883 93rd General Assembly
HR0883 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, State Representative Monique D. Davis and the | 3 |
| members of the Illinois House of Representatives wish to honor | 4 |
| Chinta Strausberg on her unbroken and lifelong dedication to | 5 |
| print and electronic journalism; and
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| WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg was born on Chicago's South | 7 |
| Side; her parents, Irene, a nurse, and stepfather, General, a | 8 |
| United States postal supervisor and entrepreneur, later moved | 9 |
| to a larger West Side building also owned by her grandfather; | 10 |
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| WHEREAS, Wanting to chart their own course, Chinta | 12 |
| Strausberg's parents later had a home built in Markham where | 13 |
| she and her siblings attended school; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Strausberg is a graduate of Roosevelt | 15 |
| University where she majored in journalism; she attended | 16 |
| Northwestern's undergraduate and graduate school where she | 17 |
| took more courses in journalism; by day, she worked as a | 18 |
| proofreader/copy editor for the American Hospital Association | 19 |
| and by night, she worked pro bono at the WSSD radio station, | 20 |
| where she not only went into the community and found the news, | 21 |
| but also wrote her own copy, and broadcast it on an hourly | 22 |
| basis; and
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| WHEREAS, In addition, she had a weekly talk show where she | 24 |
| met the late Mayor Harold Washington, who was then a State | 25 |
| Representative; she also met and interviewed other officials | 26 |
| such as Representatives Carol Moseley Braun, Susan Catania, | 27 |
| Barbara Flynn Currie, and Senator Richard Newhouse; and | 28 |
| activists Lu Palmer, Walter "Slim" Coleman, Dorothy Tillman, | 29 |
| Helen Shiller, Rev. Al Sampson, police officials, and many | 30 |
| others; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Strausberg joined the Chicago Defender in | 2 |
| January 1981 as a freelance reporter; while using her personal | 3 |
| savings for five months, Ms. Strausberg, who worked every day | 4 |
| at the Chicago Defender, got a number of exclusives; she was | 5 |
| finally hired on May 10, 1981; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, She covered politics, the CHA, the school board, | 7 |
| the police, 26th and California, the federal building, | 8 |
| religion, travel, but mostly politics and civil rights; and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, The late John Sengstacke, publisher/editor, | 10 |
| assigned Ms. Strausberg to cover politics and civil rights in | 11 |
| 1981 and placed her in the City Hall press room, where she has | 12 |
| been for more than 22 of the more than 23 years she has been | 13 |
| with the Chicago Defender Newspaper; and | 14 |
| WHEREAS, While working at the Chicago Defender, she had a | 15 |
| daily column entitled "On the Case", and she also had a talk | 16 |
| show on WVON; in addition, she co-anchored the news with former | 17 |
| CBS 2 reporter John Davis on V-103; prior to her Chicago | 18 |
| Defender duties, and for nearly five years, she was a monthly | 19 |
| columnist with the Dollars and Sense Magazine; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, She currently has a live, Internet/web cast talk | 21 |
| show, entitled, "The Strausberg Report", on the Probation | 22 |
| Challenge Connection (PCC) Network; city, county, state, | 23 |
| federal, and activists across the State get to showcase not | 24 |
| only their tenure in office and their programs but they often | 25 |
| make news on the show that has an audience of more than 30 | 26 |
| million people; and
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| WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg will be honored by the Mayor of | 28 |
| Chicago and the Chicago City Council on May 5, 2004 in Chicago; | 29 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 2 |
| honor Chinta Strausberg and her unswerving dedication to the | 3 |
| profession of journalism and we wish her good health and | 4 |
| happiness in her future endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 |
| presented to Chinta Strausberg as a token of our respect and | 7 |
| esteem.
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