Bill Text: IL HR0857 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Honors Chinta Strausberg for her work in journalism.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-09 - Resolution Adopted [HR0857 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HR0857-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
Representatives are pleased to honor Chinta Strausberg for her
work in journalism; and
WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg was born on the South Side of
Chicago where her parents lived in her maternal grandfather's
"family-only" building; she later moved to Markham, where she
lived until the age of 16; she then lived with her maternal
grandmother's best friend, Ora Higgins, for a year before
getting her own apartment while in her senior year at John
Marshall Harlan High School; she subsequently worked at Sears
Roebuck & Co., getting off work at midnight and attending
college during the day; and
WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg met and married her husband,
Bernard, at the age of 21; following his passing, she moved
back to Chicago and returned to the Chicago Public Library,
where she worked as a senior library clerk; she later worked
for the federal government and the University of Illinois; she
later began working on the second shift at First National Bank
as a computer operator; while working at First National Bank,
she graduated from Roosevelt University, where she majored in
journalism; after taking several undergraduate courses in
journalism at Northwestern University and attending at

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Medill's School of Journalism in Evanston for a semester, she
became a proof-reader/copy editor for the American Hospital
Association (AHA); while working full time at the AHA, she
worked at WSSD radio as a newscaster, weekly talk show host,
acting news director, and acting public affairs director; and
WHEREAS, When there were discussions of closing the WSSD
radio station, Chinta Strausberg accepted an offer by the
managing editor of the Chicago Defender to join the paper; she
was officially put on the Defender's payroll on May 10, 1981;
she worked for the Chicago Defender for 23 1/2 years as the
paper's political reporter, covering city, county, State,
federal, national, and international news; she worked in the
paper's City Hall newsroom until she resigned on April 30,
2004, when she began working for then-Lieutenant Governor Pat
Quinn as senior policy advisor and director of constituent
services; and
WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg resigned from the Lieutenant
Governor's office on February 2, 2006 to work for late Cook
County Board President John H. Stroger, Jr. as director of
communications and public affairs; following the election of
Mr. Stroger's son as Board President, she briefly served as his
director of communications before becoming his assistant; and
WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg currently serves as director of

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communications for the re-election campaign of United States
Representative Bobby L. Rush; and
WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg is a faithful servant at Saint
Sabina Church, where she has been affiliated since 1982; and
WHEREAS, Chinta Strausberg will be honored for her civic
rights and journalism work at an event in her honor on March
12, 2012 at Hardtime Josephine's Cookin' in Chicago; therefore,
be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we honor Chinta Strausberg for her work and wish her continued
success and happiness in her future endeavors; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
presented to Chinta Strausberg as a symbol of our esteem and
respect.