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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of former |
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| State Representative and State Senator Virginia Macdonald of |
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| Arlington Heights, who passed away on July 12, 2008; and
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| WHEREAS, Virginia B. Macdonald was born October 24, 1920, |
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| in El Paso, Texas; she attended the University of New Mexico, |
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| where she met her late husband; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a volunteer for President Eisenhower's |
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| re-election campaign in 1956 and Richard Nixon's unsuccessful |
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| campaign for the presidency in 1960; she also worked on the |
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| campaigns of Senator Dirksen and Senator Percy; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a founding member of St. Simon's Episcopal |
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| Church in Arlington Heights; and she was involved in the Girl |
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| Scouts; and
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| WHEREAS, She served in the Illinois House from 1973 to |
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| 1983, and the Illinois Senate from 1983 to 1994, representing |
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| District 27; she was very active in Illinois politics for more |
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| than 40 years and served as delegate to the Illinois |
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| Constitutional Convention from 1969 to 1970; she was the only |
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| woman who served as a member of the Bill of Rights Committee |
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| that created the State's Equal Rights provision at the Sixth |
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| Illinois Constitutional Convention; and
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| WHEREAS, Her legislative accomplishments include laws |
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| requiring hospitals to safely dispose of nonradioactive |
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| medical waste and reimbursement for reconstructive breast |
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| surgery; she also sponsored bills that brought Lake Michigan |
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| water to the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, decentralized the |
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| State's juvenile court system, broadened the State's rape law |
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| to include the charge of sexual assault, and created property |
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| tax caps for suburban Cook County; and
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| WHEREAS, She was the beloved wife of the late Alan H. |
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| Macdonald; the loving mother of Susan (John) Van Bramer and |
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| Alan H. Macdonald Jr.; the cherished grandmother of Rebecca, |
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| Diana, Michael, and Joseph Van Bramer and Michelle |
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| (Christopher) Smudde; and the dear sister of the late Richard |
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| and Hendrix Blue; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
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| mourn, along with her family, friends, and community, the |
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| passing of former State legislator Virginia Macdonald; and be |
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| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |