Bill Text: IL HR0078 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Lynda DeLaforgue of Chicago.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-02-05 - Resolution Adopted [HR0078 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0078-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Lynda | ||||||
4 | DeLaforgue of Chicago, who passed away on January 12, 2019; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Lynda DeLaforgue was born in Chicago to James and | ||||||
6 | June DeLaforgue on February 18, 1958; she was raised in | ||||||
7 | Franklin Park; her father was a tuck pointer and a village | ||||||
8 | firefighter, and her mother was employed in the business office | ||||||
9 | of a local paper company; she graduated from Rockford College | ||||||
10 | in 1980, where she majored in theater and was active in local | ||||||
11 | community productions; in 1985, she married Hans Hintzen, and | ||||||
12 | they settled in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood; they later | ||||||
13 | divorced; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Lynda DeLaforgue was working as an actress and | ||||||
15 | looking for part-time work when she took a job fundraising for | ||||||
16 | the relatively new Illinois Public Action Council; effective as | ||||||
17 | a door-to-door canvasser and recruiter, she soon became the | ||||||
18 | group's Rockford office manager and helped organize a voter | ||||||
19 | registration drive leading up to the 1984 election; she then | ||||||
20 | became the group's statewide canvass manager and helped set up | ||||||
21 | similar canvass operations in other states; she also took an | ||||||
22 | increasing role in the organization's issue work, especially | ||||||
23 | around health policy and consumer protection; she was |
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1 | simultaneously involved in many progressive political | ||||||
2 | campaigns and helped elect Paul Simon to the U.S. Senate in | ||||||
3 | 1984, reelect Mayor Harold Washington in 1987, and send Jan | ||||||
4 | Schakowsky to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1990; | ||||||
5 | after the Illinois Public Action Council closed in 1997, she | ||||||
6 | became the associate director of the newly constituted Citizen | ||||||
7 | Action/Illinois; three years later she became its co-director, | ||||||
8 | a position she held until her death; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Over the past two decades, Lynda DeLaforgue was | ||||||
10 | the day-to-day driving force behind Citizen Action/Illinois | ||||||
11 | and its work; she oversaw its finances while supervising and | ||||||
12 | mentoring young staff members; she was a regular presence at | ||||||
13 | Chicago City Hall and the Cook County Building, as well as in | ||||||
14 | Springfield and in Washington, where she served on the board of | ||||||
15 | Citizen Action's national federation; she was the chief | ||||||
16 | strategist for many of the organization's biggest policy | ||||||
17 | battles, including regulating predatory payday loans, ensuring | ||||||
18 | food safety, opposing Social Security privatization, winning | ||||||
19 | marriage equality, and ensuring the rights of consumers to | ||||||
20 | affordable energy and health insurance; she was also at the | ||||||
21 | helm of the Citizen Action's electoral efforts that registered | ||||||
22 | new voters, turned out the vote, and rallied other progressives | ||||||
23 | behind Barack Obama's run for the U.S. Senate in 2004; her | ||||||
24 | efforts also helped elect many other progressive candidates, | ||||||
25 | including Governor JB Pritzker; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Lynda DeLaforgue had a wide variety of other | ||||||
2 | interests; she was passionate about her garden, enjoyed combing | ||||||
3 | estate sales for vintage clothing and jewelry, and traveled | ||||||
4 | widely, frequently visiting her sister in Italy, and | ||||||
5 | corresponding with distant relations in France; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Lynda DeLaforgue is survived by her life partner, | ||||||
7 | Brian Reizfeld; her mother, June Kaczur-Tate; her daughter, | ||||||
8 | Katy; her son, Jordan; and her sister, Laura; therefore, be it
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9 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
10 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
11 | we mourn the passing of Lynda DeLaforgue and extend our sincere | ||||||
12 | condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved | ||||||
13 | her; and be it further
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14 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
15 | presented to the family of Lynda DeLaforgue as an expression of | ||||||
16 | our deepest sympathy.
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