Full Text of HR0327 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the
Chicago | 4 | | Tribune for winning the 2016 Worth Bingham Prize and receiving | 5 | | 2017 Pulitzer Prize
Finalist recognition for Investigative | 6 | | Journalism; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The Chicago Tribune received the prestigious | 8 | | recognition from Harvard for its three-part
series, "Suffering | 9 | | in Secret"; the result of a yearlong investigation into the | 10 | | abuse and neglect of
adults with disabilities in Illinois; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The report identified 1,311 cases of documented | 12 | | harm since July of 2011, and determined at least 42 deaths | 13 | | linked to abuse or neglect in group homes or their day programs | 14 | | over
the last seven years; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Tribune reporters, Michael J. Berens and Patricia | 16 | | Callahan, revealed mistreatment inside
Illinois | 17 | | taxpayer-funded group homes and their day programs; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, The Tribune articles came to light thanks to the | 19 | | Murray Parents Association, which worked
with the newspaper to | 20 | | expose the abuse and neglect which took place in group homes | 21 | | throughout
the State; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In the course of their reporting, Berens and | 2 | | Callahan worked with more than 100
Freedom of Information Act | 3 | | requests, thousands of pages of court records, investigative | 4 | | files from
multiple agencies, state email records, law | 5 | | enforcement reports, and medical records to identify
cases and | 6 | | patterns of abuse; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The Chicago Tribune staff worked as a team to | 8 | | produce the series which includes
reporters, Michael J. Berens | 9 | | and Patricia Callahan; investigations editor, George Papajohn; | 10 | | watchdog
editor, Kaarin Tisue; photographer, John J. Kim; copy | 11 | | editor, Colleen Kujawa; digital design and
presentation | 12 | | editor, Rebecca Halleck; assistant data and graphics editor, | 13 | | Ryan Marx; and visuals
editor, Andrew Johnston; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, The 2016 Worth Bingham Prize will be presented to | 15 | | the Chicago Tribune on May 4,
2017 at the Nieman Foundation for | 16 | | Journalism at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; | 17 | | this year
marks the 50th anniversary of the prize, which many | 18 | | of the country's best investigative reporters
have won since | 19 | | the award was established in 1967; therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 21 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 22 | | recognize the Chicago Tribune staff for winning the
2016 Worth |
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| 1 | | Bingham Prize and receiving 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist | 2 | | recognition for
Investigative Journalism; and be it further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago
Tribune reporters, | 5 | | Michael J. Berens and Patricia Callahan, and the Murray Parents | 6 | | Association as a
symbol of our esteem and respect.
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