Bill Text: IL SR0550 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Recognizes Norman R. Bobins for his outstanding leadership, selfless service, generous philanthropy, and willingness to help local communities prosper and thrive.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SR0550 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SR0550-Introduced.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Norman R. Bobins, a native Chicagoan and
pre-eminent banker, has served the Illinois banking industry
for a period spanning five decades; and
WHEREAS, Norman Bobins began his career in 1967 at the
American National Bank and Trust Company in Chicago; in 1981,
he joined Exchange National Bank, which was later acquired by
LaSalle Bank; he retired from ABN AMRO and LaSalle Bank
Corporation as chairman, president, and chief executive
officer in 2007; and
WHEREAS, Norman Bobins currently serves as the
non-executive chairman of The PrivateBank and Trust Company in
Chicago and non-executive chairman of the board of Transco,
Inc.; he also serves on the corporate boards of AAR CORP.,
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc., and RREEF America REIT II,
Inc.; and
WHEREAS, Norman Bobins has provided continuous leadership
and has devoted a lifetime of community service to dozens of
local, State, and national civic organizations, including
serving four consecutive four-year terms as a member of the
Chicago Board of Education, serving as a board trustee of WTTW
Communications, Inc., where he served as chairman for six

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years, and as a member of the boards of directors of the
Auditorium Theatre, Brain Research Foundation, The Field
Museum, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Illinois
Sports Facilities Authority, Navy Pier, Inc., and the Wisconsin
Alumni Research Foundation; and
WHEREAS, Norman Bobins is a Life Member of the University
of Chicago Booth School of Business, former chairman of the
board of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, and has served as
a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council; and
WHEREAS, Norman Bobins has received numerous awards
including the Illinois Bankers Association's 2014 Illinois
Banker of the Year Award, the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Award for
Corporate Citizenship, the 2007 Order of Lincoln, the State of
Illinois' highest award, the 2007 Chicagoland Chamber of
Commerce's Daniel H. Burnham Distinguished Leadership Award,
the 2003 University of Chicago Graduate School of Business'
Distinguished Corporate Alumnus Award, and the 1992 Human
Rights Medallion from the American Jewish Committee;
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we recognize Norman R.
Bobins for his outstanding leadership, selfless service,
generous philanthropy, and willingness to help local

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communities prosper and thrive; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we congratulate Norman Bobins for his 50
years of service to the banking industry and in helping to
promote economic and job growth in the great State of Illinois,
for serving as a teacher and mentor to so many Illinois
bankers, and for his unfaltering commitment to community and
State; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be presented to
Norman Bobins and his wife, Virginia, at the Annual Conference
of the Illinois Bankers Association on June 23, 2017 as an
expression of our esteem and respect.