Full Text of SR0374 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of Carolyn A. Rush, who passed away on March | 4 | | 13, 2017; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Rush was born to Beulah Mae (DeWitt) | 6 | | Maxwell and Tommie James Thomas on May 27, 1949; she grew up in | 7 | | Rossville, Tennessee, where she was a member of DeWitt Temple | 8 | | Church of God in Christ; her family moved to the Chatham | 9 | | neighborhood of Chicago and she attended Betsy Ross Elementary | 10 | | School; she was baptized at the Greater Canaan Missionary | 11 | | Baptist Church and graduated from Hirsch High School in 1967, | 12 | | with honors; she married firefighter Eddie Long in the late | 13 | | 1960s; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Rush worked a variety of jobs in her teen
| 15 | | and young adult years at places such as Woolworth
Department | 16 | | Store, Illinois Bell, Marshall Fields,
First National Bank, and | 17 | | the Ford Motor Company; later, she worked at the University
of | 18 | | Illinois,
the Prudential Insurance Company, the Art Institute
| 19 | | of Chicago, and the State of Illinois, where she
served under | 20 | | Illinois Treasurer Judy Barr Topinka; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Rush married United States Congressman | 22 | | Bobby Lee Rush on May 2, 1980; she worked alongside her husband |
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| 1 | | selling insurance and served as his first administrative | 2 | | assistant when he was elected to the Chicago City Council in | 3 | | 1983; it was at her encouragement that he ran for Congress in | 4 | | 1991; she was a leader with the Congressional Black Caucus | 5 | | Spouses and served as Secretary for the Illinois Electoral | 6 | | College in 1992; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Rush and her husband
founded the Beloved | 8 | | Community Family
Wellness Center, the only federally qualified
| 9 | | medical facility in Englewood, the Rebirth of
Englewood Local | 10 | | Development Corporation,
and the Beloved Community Family | 11 | | Services
Corporation - all of which served poor people
and the | 12 | | greater Englewood community; as First Lady of Beloved Community | 13 | | Church
COGIC, she was active in developing
social service | 14 | | programs to address issues arising from poverty, drug | 15 | | addiction, and
violence; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Rush graduated from the American College | 17 | | of Florists and was a certified florist; she and her husband | 18 | | enjoyed traveling to Africa, Europe, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, | 19 | | and across the United States; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Rush was a member of Operation P.U.S.H. | 21 | | and several other organizations that work to eradicate | 22 | | discrimination in banking and employment; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In honor of his beloved wife, U.S. Representative | 2 | | Bobby L. Rush established the Carolyn A. and Bobby L. Rush | 3 | | Scholarship,
to be awarded to underrepresented minority | 4 | | students interested in
pursuing a career in health sciences | 5 | | through the Rush University
College of Health Sciences program; | 6 | | and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Rush was preceded in death by her son, | 8 | | Huey; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Rush is survived by her husband, Elder and | 10 | | Pastor,
U.S. Representative Bobby Lee Rush; her sons, Michael | 11 | | (Sharon)
Long, Steven (Tiffany) Long, Jeffery Rush,
and Flynn | 12 | | (Melissa) Rush;
her daughters, Fanon (Donald) Tyler, and Kacy
| 13 | | Rush; her sisters, Vanessa Dennis,
Stephanie Lemon, Sheila | 14 | | Thomas-Mahon, Kathryn
Thomas-Whaley, and Cora Marie
Hall; her | 15 | | brothers, Kenneth
Shields, and Eric Thomas; her grandchildren, | 16 | | Carlysha, Kaelin,
Hannah-Grace, Walter, David, Darius,
Jordan, | 17 | | Nia, Jonathan R., Joshua, Sanii, Aiden, and Arianna; her | 18 | | mother, Beulah Mae
Maxwell; her father, Tommie James (Geneva)
| 19 | | Thomas; her good friend,
Rosemary Hall; and a host of nieces,
| 20 | | nephews, cousins, in-laws, extended
family, friends, | 21 | | colleagues, constituents,
and Congressman Rush's congressional | 22 | | staff; therefore, be it
| 23 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL |
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| 1 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 2 | | Carolyn A. Rush, and extend our sincere condolences to her | 3 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved her; and be it | 4 | | further
| 5 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 | | presented to the family of Carolyn Rush as an expression of our | 7 | | deepest sympathy.
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