Bill Text: IL HR0562 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of Dallas Ingemunson.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-02-06 - Resolution Adopted [HR0562 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0562-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Dallas | ||||||
4 | Ingemunson, who passed away on November 4, 2023; and
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5 | WHEREAS, Dallas Ingemunson was born to Clare and Dorothy | ||||||
6 | Ingemunson in Sandwich on May 23, 1938; he studied locally and | ||||||
7 | graduated from Newark High School; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Dallas Ingemunson received a bachelor's degree in | ||||||
9 | electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at | ||||||
10 | Urbana-Champaign and a Juris Doctor from DePaul Law School in | ||||||
11 | 1965; and
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12 | WHEREAS, As a member of the Illinois Bar Association, | ||||||
13 | Dallas Ingemunson began practicing as an Assistant State's | ||||||
14 | Attorney of Kendall County; he was mentored by the elected | ||||||
15 | chief of his office, Robert Ohse; and
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16 | WHEREAS, After Robert Ohse died in office, Dallas | ||||||
17 | Ingemunson was selected by the Kendall County Board to serve | ||||||
18 | as State's Attorney of Kendall County; he was then elected by | ||||||
19 | his neighbors to serve a full term and subsequently served six | ||||||
20 | terms as the prosecutorial law officer of his fast-growing | ||||||
21 | county; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Dallas Ingemunson was chosen by his fellow | ||||||
2 | Republicans to be the Republican County Chairperson of Kendall | ||||||
3 | County; during his chairmanship, Kendall County was one of the | ||||||
4 | most Republican counties in the State of Illinois; for | ||||||
5 | example, in the 1984 United States Presidential Election, | ||||||
6 | President Ronald Reagan carried Kendall County with 73.8% of | ||||||
7 | the vote, the fourth-highest percentage among all the counties | ||||||
8 | in Illinois in that year; and
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9 | WHEREAS, As a leader of his political party, Dallas | ||||||
10 | Ingemunson served as treasurer of the Republican Party of | ||||||
11 | Illinois and as interim chairperson of the Illinois Republican | ||||||
12 | Party; and
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13 | WHEREAS, As a state's attorney, Dallas Ingemunson led the | ||||||
14 | charge to create the Office of the Illinois State's Attorneys | ||||||
15 | Appellate Prosecutor, the Springfield-based office that | ||||||
16 | assists in prosecuting criminal cases when requested to do so | ||||||
17 | and at the direction of a state's attorney, and was solely | ||||||
18 | prosecuting criminal cases when duly appointed by a court | ||||||
19 | having jurisdiction; and
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20 | WHEREAS, The dedicated personnel of this office, which | ||||||
21 | Dallas Ingemunson helped to create, have played a key role in | ||||||
22 | the prosecutions of some of Illinois' worst criminal acts; and
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1 | WHEREAS, As state's attorney and as county chairman of his | ||||||
2 | party, Dallas Ingemunson was a friend to many and a mentor to a | ||||||
3 | surprising number; former House Republican Leader Tom Cross, | ||||||
4 | who also shares Kendall County heritage, is high among those | ||||||
5 | who knew him as a close friend and guide; and
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6 | WHEREAS, In 1996, Dallas Ingemunson moved from public | ||||||
7 | service into the private practice of law, a vocation in which | ||||||
8 | he continued his work, buttressed his standing as a Kendall | ||||||
9 | County community leader, and added to his lengthening list of | ||||||
10 | friends; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Many Illinoisans of all political persuasions can | ||||||
12 | remember Dallas Ingemunson telling stories about the quirks of | ||||||
13 | Illinois life with many of the best stories only being told at | ||||||
14 | fishing lakes and camps with some of these stories getting | ||||||
15 | better each time they were told; and
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16 | WHEREAS, While working hard as a student in law school, | ||||||
17 | Dallas Ingemunson married his true love and partner, Dodie | ||||||
18 | Ingemunson on October 5, 1963; they were together for more | ||||||
19 | than 60 years, and by the end of their journey, they had three | ||||||
20 | sons, Gregg, Kirk, and Boyd, two daughters-in-law, Kate and | ||||||
21 | Kathy, and ten grandchildren, as well as countless friends and | ||||||
22 | kinsfolk; therefore, be it
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1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
2 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
3 | we mourn the passing of Dallas Ingemunson and extend our | ||||||
4 | sincere condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew | ||||||
5 | and loved him; and be it further
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