Full Text of SR0662 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened | 3 | | to learn of the death of former Illinois State Senator and | 4 | | United States Congressman Harris Walter Fawell, who passed | 5 | | away on November 11, 2021; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Congressman Fawell was born in West Chicago; his | 7 | | father, Walter Fawell, served at one time as West Chicago's | 8 | | mayor; he grew up on a horse farm and graduated from West | 9 | | Chicago Community High School; he then earned a bachelor's | 10 | | degree from North Central College in Naperville in 1949; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Congressman Fawell was a gifted baseball player | 12 | | and earned a brief stint during college with a Detroit Tigers | 13 | | minor league affiliate in Greenville, South Carolina; while he | 14 | | was in high school, he and two of his brothers were members of | 15 | | the 1946 Fox Valley League championship baseball team from | 16 | | West Chicago, coached by their father; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Congressman Fawell earned a law degree from the | 18 | | Kent College of Law in 1952; his first professional jobs were | 19 | | as an assistant state's attorney in DuPage County and then in | 20 | | private legal practice; he then served from 1963 until 1977 as | 21 | | a Republican in the Illinois Senate, where he became known as a | 22 | | champion of local parks and sponsored legislation providing |
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| 1 | | parks for special needs children and adults throughout the | 2 | | State; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Congressman Fawell was known for his fiscal | 4 | | conservatism, which included leading a bipartisan | 5 | | "Porkbusters' Coalition" in Congress that decried excessive | 6 | | government spending on legislators' pet projects; he prepared | 7 | | and worked tirelessly for every vote; he was very patriotic | 8 | | about his country and was willing to diverge from his party | 9 | | when he saw the need; he was opposed to wasteful spending and | 10 | | was willing to meet any opponent to represent the taxpayers, | 11 | | which would occasionally antagonize people in his own party; | 12 | | and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Congressman Fawell led the initiative to require | 14 | | developers to donate parkland in communities, which did not | 15 | | become law but resulted in Naperville's City Council enacting | 16 | | a law requiring developers to donate land or cash to the city's | 17 | | park district; he was one of only two Republican state | 18 | | senators to help support fair housing legislation in the 1960s | 19 | | and also is credited with having rewritten much of Illinois' | 20 | | property tax code while a state senator in the late 1960s; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, At the time of his passing, Congressman Fawell | 22 | | had been married to his wife Ruth for 69 years and had been a | 23 | | resident of Naperville for more than 50 years; therefore, be |
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| 2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | 3 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 4 | | former Illinois State Senator and United States Congressman | 5 | | Harris Walter Fawell and extend our sincere condolences to his | 6 | | family, friends, and all who knew and loved him; and be it | 7 | | further
| 8 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 9 | | presented to the family of Congressman Fawell as an expression | 10 | | of our deepest sympathy.
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