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1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened |
3 | | to learn of the death of Carolyn Bartholf Oxtoby of |
4 | | Springfield, who passed away on January 12, 2024; and
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5 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Oxtoby was born to Herbert and Susan |
6 | | Pasfield Bartholf in Springfield on June 1, 1931; she attended |
7 | | Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts; she married Robert |
8 | | Boynton Oxtoby in 1956; and
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9 | | WHEREAS, Carolyn Oxtoby became a real estate developer and |
10 | | historic preservationist; she is credited with starting |
11 | | Springfield's downtown revitalization in the mid-1970s; she |
12 | | worked on the preservation of the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices, |
13 | | the Fisher-Latham building in the 100 block of North Sixth |
14 | | Street, and the 17-unit Sears Apartment Building in the 400 |
15 | | block of South Seventh Street; she donated $350,000 for the |
16 | | purchase of the former Masonic Temple that was converted into |
17 | | the Hoogland Center for the Arts in 2001; she, and businesses |
18 | | along Sixth Street between Monroe and Adams, commissioned the |
19 | | design and paid for the construction of new sidewalks with the |
20 | | concrete paver amenity strips and historic reproduction street |
21 | | lighting; at one point, she managed approximately 30 |
22 | | apartments downtown and was known as a good and responsive |
23 | | landlord; and
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