Bill Text: IL HR0129 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Cleo Wilson on receiving the Civic Engagement, Community Service, and Community Organizing (CECSCO) Award during the annual University of Illinois-Chicago Gender and Women's Studies Program's Women's History Month Reception.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-03-01 - Resolution Adopted [HR0129 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HR0129-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The annual University of Illinois-Chicago Gender | ||||||
3 | and Women's Studies
Program's Women's History Month Reception | ||||||
4 | honors Civic Engagement,
Community Service, and Community | ||||||
5 | Organizing (CECSCO) Award recipients; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Cleo Wilson is a founding board member of Intuit: | ||||||
7 | The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art and served as its | ||||||
8 | president from 2002 to 2006; established in 1991, Intuit is | ||||||
9 | grounded in the belief that the instinct to be creative is | ||||||
10 | universal and the arts must embrace all, celebrate all, and be | ||||||
11 | accessible to all regardless of education or socio-economic | ||||||
12 | status; and
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13 | WHEREAS, She was the editor of Intuit's magazine, The | ||||||
14 | Outsider, from 1992 until 2002, and in 2004, curated an | ||||||
15 | exhibition at Intuit entitled "Sistuhs: Four African American | ||||||
16 | Self-Taught Artists"; prior to accepting the position of | ||||||
17 | Executive Director at Intuit in 2006, with responsibility for | ||||||
18 | the day-to-day operations of Intuit, including supervision of | ||||||
19 | artistic and administrative personnel and programs, she served | ||||||
20 | for 25 years as the Executive Director of the Playboy | ||||||
21 | Foundation, a corporate giving program of Playboy Enterprises, | ||||||
22 | Inc.; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Serving as a Playboy employee since 1976, she was | ||||||
2 | named Foundation grants and programs manager in 1982; she was | ||||||
3 | promoted to executive director of the Foundation in 1984 and | ||||||
4 | named director of public affairs in 1989, and appointed vice | ||||||
5 | president in 2000; and
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6 | WHEREAS, She serves on a variety of State and municipal | ||||||
7 | grant-review panels, including the Illinois Arts Council, City | ||||||
8 | Arts, and most recently the Propeller Fund; she has served as a | ||||||
9 | member of the board of directors of the National Coalition | ||||||
10 | Against Censorship (1997 to 2000), and was a member of the AIDS | ||||||
11 | Foundation of Chicago's board of directors (1989 to 1999), and | ||||||
12 | its president from 1990 to 1993; and
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13 | WHEREAS, She also was on the board of the American Civil | ||||||
14 | Liberties Union of Illinois, serving as vice president from | ||||||
15 | 1997 to 2004; she has been listed since 1988 in Who's Who Among | ||||||
16 | African-Americans and, since 1990, in Who's Who Among American | ||||||
17 | Women; she was saluted as one of Chicago's up-and-coming black | ||||||
18 | business and professional women in 1985 by Dollars and Sense | ||||||
19 | magazine; in 1984, she was inducted into the Black Woman Hall | ||||||
20 | of Fame in recognition of her community service; and
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21 | WHEREAS, In 1991, she was honored as a "Friend for Life" by | ||||||
22 | the Howard Brown Medical Center; she received the "Phenomenal | ||||||
23 | Woman Award" in 1997 at Chicago's Expo for Today's Black Woman, |
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1 | in
recognition of her leadership and dedication to community | ||||||
2 | issues; in 1999, she was honored by the AIDS Foundation of | ||||||
3 | Chicago for her "leadership, compassion, and generosity"; and
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4 | WHEREAS, In 2004, she received the Handy L. Lindsey Award | ||||||
5 | for Inclusiveness in Philanthropy, and also that year, an award | ||||||
6 | for outstanding leadership in support of reproductive rights | ||||||
7 | from Personal PAC; in 2006, she was awarded the Edwin A. | ||||||
8 | Rothschild Civil Liberties Award for her "persistent and clear | ||||||
9 | voice in defense of civil liberties"; in October 2010, she was | ||||||
10 | inducted into the HistoryMakers, the single largest archival | ||||||
11 | collection of interviews of both well-known and unsung | ||||||
12 | African-American history makers; she is a native Chicagoan and | ||||||
13 | a 1976 graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago; and
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14 | WHEREAS, She will receive the Civic Engagement,
Community | ||||||
15 | Service, and Community Organizing (CECSCO) Award during the | ||||||
16 | annual University of Illinois-Chicago Gender and Women's | ||||||
17 | Studies
Program's Women's History Month Reception on March 4, | ||||||
18 | 2011; therefore, be it
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19 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
20 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
21 | we congratulate Cleo Wilson on receiving this award and wish | ||||||
22 | her continued success for years to come; and be it further
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1 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
2 | presented to Cleo Wilson as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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