Full Text of HR1575 94th General Assembly
HR1575 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| representatives wish to express their sincere condolences to | 4 |
| the family and friends of Don Hubert of Chicago, Illinois, who | 5 |
| passed away on November 27, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Don Hubert was raised in a Chicago family of seven | 7 |
| children; in a Chicago Lawyer magazine article, after being | 8 |
| named 1992 Person of the Year by the publication, Mr. Hubert | 9 |
| recounted spending summers with his grandmother in Georgia and | 10 |
| how he would pick cotton with her, trying to build his pile | 11 |
| higher and higher onto the scale that would determine how much | 12 |
| he would be paid; and | 13 |
| WHEREAS,
In grade school, Don Hubert asked for a wagon for | 14 |
| Christmas so he could deliver groceries to earn money for | 15 |
| tuition at Hales Franciscan; he is credited with helping Hales | 16 |
| Franciscan High School keep its doors open when the school | 17 |
| needed help; he generously donated the proceeds of the first | 18 |
| case he won to the school; he led a capital campaign for Hales | 19 |
| Franciscan, persuading Michael Jordan to give $1 million to | 20 |
| kick off a $15 million fund-raising effort; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, Mr. Hubert served as the second African-American | 22 |
| president of the Chicago Bar Association; he represented the | 23 |
| City of Chicago in a federal redistricting case; he won | 24 |
| acquittals for men falsely accused of murder; and raised his | 25 |
| now 12-year-old daughter Jessica on his own after his wife, | 26 |
| Mellonie, died; and
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| WHEREAS, He was considered among the top leaders in | 28 |
| Chicago's African-American community, and was frequently | 29 |
| sought after as an adviser and fund-raiser by African-American | 30 |
| politicians;
he created a mentoring program through the Cook | 31 |
| County Bar Association to train new lawyers to avoid getting |
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| WHEREAS In 2005, Mr. Hubert was awarded the Chicago Bar | 3 |
| Association's John Paul Stevens award for his life's work; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Hubert attended Loyola University, where he | 5 |
| founded the African-American Student Organization, then went | 6 |
| to law school at the University of Michigan; he was head of the | 7 |
| Hubert Law Group, a six-lawyer firm that counts both Coca-Cola | 8 |
| and McDonald's as their clients; and
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| WHEREAS, Don Hubert is survived by his daughter, Jessica; | 10 |
| his stepson, Brandon Harris; his parents, Issac and Louise | 11 |
| Hubert; his brothers, Issac, Karl, Jerome and Maurice; and his | 12 |
| sisters, Shirley Hubert-Thompson, and Janice Hubert-Whitten; | 13 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 16 |
| we mourn, along with his family and friends, the passing of Don | 17 |
| Hubert of Chicago; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to the family of Don Hubert.
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