Full Text of SR1729 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 Wilson Frost of Chicago, who passed away | 4 | | on May 5, 2018; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Wilson Frost was born in Cairo on December 27, | 6 | | 1925; he earned his bachelor's degree from Fisk University in | 7 | | 1950; he then attended Chicago-Kent College of Law and earned | 8 | | his Juris Doctor in 1958; he later studied at DePaul | 9 | | University's Lawyer's Institute; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, After graduating from Fisk, Wilson Frost was hired | 11 | | by the Postal Transportation Service as a clerk, where he | 12 | | remained until 1952; he then left to work as a statistician at | 13 | | Provident Hospital; after earning his law degree, he joined the | 14 | | firm of Frost, Sherard, Howse & Coleman, where he continued on | 15 | | as a partner until 1973; that year, he left to form Meyer & | 16 | | Frost, which later became Frost & Greenblatt; he remained there | 17 | | until his retirement in 1998; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Wilson Frost became active in Chicago politics in | 19 | | 1967 when he was elected alderman of the 21st Ward; in 1971, he | 20 | | was elected alderman of the 34th Ward, and in 1976, he was | 21 | | serving as the president pro tem of the City Council when | 22 | | longtime mayor Richard J. Daley passed away; he pointed out |
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| 1 | | that under existing law, he was to become the new mayor; the | 2 | | other aldermen disagreed, and after the course of several | 3 | | meetings, he was kept out of the mayor's seat and instead named | 4 | | chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council; | 5 | | following that incident, he continued to serve the city and | 6 | | retired as the commissioner of the Cook County Board of Tax | 7 | | Appeals in 1998; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, During his many years of public service, Wilson | 9 | | Frost was honored by many organizations, including the Original | 10 | | Forty Club, which awarded him the Man of the Year Award in 1974 | 11 | | and the Illinois House of Representatives, which upon his | 12 | | retirement, issued a resolution praising his work; he also | 13 | | actively served several organizations, including the John | 14 | | Marshall School of Law, Mercy Hospital Medical Center, and the | 15 | | City Club of Chicago, where he was vice president; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Wilson Frost and his wife had four children; | 17 | | therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | 19 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 20 | | Wilson Frost and extend our sincere condolences to his family, | 21 | | friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it further
| 22 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
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| 1 | | presented to the family of Wilson Frost as an expression of our | 2 | | deepest sympathy.
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