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Two Lifelong Residents of Evanston Honored by the Cook County Board

The Cook County Board honored two distinguished and lifelong residents of Evanston at their board meeting.

Two recently deceased lifelong residents of Evanston were honored with resolutions honoring their lives at the most recent Cook County
Board meeting.

Marcia Wynn was born in Evanston on May 19, 1949. She attended Noyes Elementary School,  Haven Middle School, and Evanston Township High School.

On August 5, 1967, she married her high school sweetheart, Michael Wynn. They recently celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary. Wynn spent her entire life as contributing member of the Evanston
community. After the tragic death of her son, Justin, she started the Justin Wynn Fund, a nonprofit organization with the purpose of instilling in young people the virtues she felt her son embodied. The Justin Wynn Fund worked with elementary school students all throughout Evanston to become “Wynners” by joining the Academy
where they met monthly to plan and carry out service projects.

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Wynn also volunteered regularly at soup kitchens, retirement
homes, and helping with annual food drives.

Wynn passed away on August 10, 2011. Wynn is survived by her
husband and three children: Kelli, Laura, and Riian.

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Willie Meeks spent more than five decades as a resident of Evanston in the Lake-Brown-Greenwood-Grey neighborhood.  She was instrumental in facilitating the busing of Dawes School children when integration in that school took place. Meeks, along with other parents, even rode the bus along with the students to help in the transition.

Wynn was also the President of her local block club for more than three decades. She worked tirelessly on issues of safety, the wellbeing of children in the neighborhood, and organized and demonstrated to the city the need to install a traffic light at the intersection of Lake and Dodge.

She worked with other members of her block club to establish a Neighborhood Watch and Foot Patrol when gang activity increased and threatened the safety of residents of Evanston.

According to the resolution, “the block club over which she presided has been inspiration and model for other neighborhood associations
throughout Evanston.”

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle joined several
suburban Commissioners- Liz Gorman, Gregg Goslin, and Bridget Gainer, inco-sponsoring this non- binding resolution.  Both ladies’ history of accomplishment and devotion to Evanston were read into the record of the Cook County Board. Both resolutions were passed
unanimously.

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