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This resolution is a memorial honoring Stephen A. "Steve" Pellegrini, a longtime Springfield police detective who passed away on March 6, 2025. The resolution highlights Pellegrini's life and service, noting that he was born in Taylorville in 1950, graduated from Stephen Decatur High School, and served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972, where he even provided security detail for President Richard Nixon. During his 30-year law enforcement career with the Springfield Police Department, which ended in 2010, he also worked on special assignments with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and was a member of the Police Benevolent & Protective Association of Illinois. The resolution describes him as an avid Chicago Cubs and Green Bay Packers fan who enjoyed traveling in an RV with his wife Beth, to whom he was married for ten years. The document expresses condolences to his surviving family members, including his wife Beth, sons Zack and Dalton, siblings Lynne and Greg, and several nieces and nephews, and resolves to present a copy of the resolution to his family as a symbol of sympathy.

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=185&GAID=18&DocTypeID=SR&SessionID=114&GA=104