john fritchey

John Fritchey: His Personal Life

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Not just a great human being and a highly skilled politician but John Fritchey has also proven himself as a loving and caring husband to his wife Karen as well as a wonderful father to her daughter. “I believe it’s as important to be a good family man as it’s to be a good entrepreneur”, believes John. Well, undoubtedly but it’s also a truth that it’s not easy to focus on family as well with so many responsibilities around, at least not for every one. But John has done it almost effortlessly or at least it seems like so.

With many such situations where John had to take a decision between choosing his family affairs and his work, Fritchey has always acted as a true leader in balancing the both with his interpersonal and leadership skills. He has made sure that not only the love of thousands of people remain with him always, in spite of all the challenges, but also the unconditional love and support of his family.

Fritchey had created the ‘John Fritchey Youth Foundation’, which was basically designed to create recreational and educational opportunities for the local children through funding obtained from various sports and academic programs.

John’s recent role as a Reformer

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Recently John has been working hard running as a reformer just like his predecessor did in the Illinois house, springing all the way from Springfield to Washington. He’s after all one of the finest leaders world has seen in a while.

But that’s all the similarities with his former governor end, said John recently.

John has been putting incredible time and energy in the process of cleaning him permanently the debris filled up in the local politics and has been working very hard to hit the state politics in this process. May be he believes the impact can reach the state politics as well. If that happens though, that would really be another great achievement by this noteworthy leader.

A skilled politician and a great humanitarian, a rare combination, John has been targeted many times during his political career, to the point where he felt extremely disturbed. But like any great leader, he has always come back with doubled the effort again, proving his metal to his competitors and to those who try to pose a challenge for him.

One of these challenges posed on him was the question of his gaining a political advantage due to his father-in-law’s position, however, Fritchey has always discarded these kinds of things as pure nonsense and has proved again and again that he’s alone capable of bringing things to order whenever he wants.

John Fritchey: Awards and Recognitions

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The list of awards Fritchey has received during his lifetime is not small. These are a few noteworthy achievements from the large list of his receiving.

1) Lakeview Chamber of Commerce Award
2009 Outstanding Public Servant Award: This award recognizes those who are elected or appointed government officials and have dedicated whole-heartedly their deepest efforts to make a positive difference in the community the government.

2) Illinois Environmental Council 2007: John for his incredible achievements, humanitarian efforts in this direction and for his ability to make a difference earned the ‘100% Pro-Environment Voting Record’ and has kept its worth.

3) American Cancer Society 2007 Leadership Award: John received this award for being responsible in the passing of the Smoke-Free Illinois Act, a move which has changed the life of many who have been affected by it.

4) Illinois Farm Bureau – John received this award for his work towards Agriculture. Called as the ‘Edgar County Farm Bureau 2006 Friend of Agriculture Award’, this is probably one of the finest achievements of John Fritchey.

5) American Legion - 6th District Council 2006 Citation of Appreciation, another award for his noteworthy achievements.

6) Life Services Network 2006-2007: For recognition of personal commitment and continued dedication for promoting older adult services in Illinois.

John as a Lecturer

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John Fritchey not only has his name in the world of politics and public welfare alone but has also served as an adjunct lecturer in political science at Northwestern University in the past. There also and as always, John was known to be a great teacher, an able leader and someone who could inspire just by his solemn presence alone. His ability to put knowledge in the mind of his students was almost exceptional. No wonder he went on to creating so many successes in his lifetime so far. Are there more to come? Well, definitely!

Also, Fritchey is actively practicing in association with various civic organizations and many local community groups as well as the chambers of commerce. Undoubtedly, these associations have made him learn what he has been seen practicing all time in his career, helping others and making them feel the peace they deserve.

Almost ten years back, Fritchey was responsible for creating the famous John Fritchey Youth Foundation, specially created to promote recreational and educational opportunities for the local children by getting sponsorship of various sports and academic programs. Also, an annual essay contest is also promoted and supported by the foundation which involves performance of children in eighth standard across the entire district.

John Fritchey: Challenges and Failures

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John’s life has been full of successes and achievements and he has secured a lot of love from his nation’s residents and from all across the world. However, his life hasn’t been as smooth and straight as it may seem like from his noteworthy achievements and the descriptions available online and offline. He like anyone else who has ever thought of achieving something worthwhile in life faced a lot of failures which made him learn something he could later use for the welfare of people in his nation and all around the world.

Fritchey was one of the few candidates who decided to run for Rahm Emanuel’s seat in the Illinois’s fifth congressional district special election which happened recently in 2009. This however turned out be an unsuccessful campaign. John Fritchey had mentioned publicly that he would be running as the first Moroccan American for this seat. However, the winner turned out be Mike Quigley and John Fritchey had to suffice with the second position.

This failure doesn’t really seem to move the man even a bit from his powerful stand and interest in public welfare. He is still a person who would do anything for his nation’s wellness and continues to take an active interest in it, coming back again with doubled the effort each time.

John Fritchey: His Recent Achievements

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John Fritchey is a man who is known for his continuous achievements. It’s a matter of great pride for anyone to be selected time and again for so many great honors, but then again, it could only be John Fritchey. His humanitarian efforts and his purpose leadership have always made him the center of attention where he’s continuously making a big difference through his able and powerful presence.

Recently, in this past session only, an important legislation was passed by John Fritchey to thwart the hazards and menaces of spyware, a computer program which promotes identity theft by spying on the computers of innocent users and sending their data to hackers who then use the sensitive information (like credit card numbers or bank account numbers) obtained for their evil deeds, such as spending online using someone’s credit card or transferring money from someone’s bank account to theirs.

These achievements lead John Fritchey to become the Chairman of the House Civil Judiciary Committee (2003) and put him at the front position where he was supposed to handle many critical and key proposals affecting the daily lives of the residents of whole nation. After all, who could be trusted more than John Fritchey for this purpose?

Leadership Achievements by John Fritchey

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A true leader and a public servant by heart, John Fritchey has gone ahead to create many leadership records during his lifetime so far. Here are a few of his momentous achievements.

In a national lawsuit filed against cigarette manufacturers, Illinois obtained 9.1 billion dollars as an award. John Fritchey was made the Co-Chairman of the Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Committee right by the House Leadership. Playing an effective leader and a great human being as usual, John Fritchey was able to implement a whole program of ‘improving health of all Illinoisans’ using an excellent monetarily responsible plan which seemed to combine long-term savings and investments with major healthcare initiatives.

Also, John Fritchey was always a forerunner in the war to protect the basic rights of families and individuals as the Chairman of Consumer Protection Committee from 1999-2000. One of his greatest achievements was his successful campaign in restraining the escalation of ATM fees. This achievement won John Fritchey attention and praise at a national level and he became even more important and worthy of over by the entire nation. Very recently, John Fritchey drafted and passed a law which prevents retailers from printing your complete credit card number on their receipts. This step was taken by John to restrain the mounting problem of identity theft.

John Fritchey: His Leadership

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Not many people in this world work as hard and by put their souls for their country. Many times during his working as one of the most effective leaders’ world has ever seen, John Fritchey has proven his abilities and himself as a great leader time and again over various critical issues.

Fritchey has been found fighting continuously for his constituent and for the residents of Illinois. All these great efforts from John’s side helped him become the ‘Democratic Leader of the year’, a title given to him by the Illinois State Crime Commission.

John had always wanted an ‘all clear’ government and has always worked hard to clear it from all corrupt or wrong practices. In an almost head-on combat with the able administration of George Ryan, Governor, Illinois, John was able to pass the very first noteworthy campaign reform law in many years which directly outlawed the campaign fundraising previous handled by state inspectors.

Another achievement he made very soon was passing of the most comprehensive and inclusive ethics bill which has ever been passed in the state, in his work with Barack Obama, the then State Senator and current President of United States. This was again one of the greatest achievements leaders have ever made for the benefit of the country.

John Fritchey: His Public Service Career

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After obtaining his degree in law, John started working on the post of an Illinois Assistant Attorney General, a high post which allowed him to represent the state in both federal and state courts, allowing him to use his inborn skills and traits to the fullest.

However, John always felt compelled to continue with public service which happened to one of his deepest traits. So finally in 1996, Fritchey was elected after running for state representative to the Illinois General Assembly. At this time, John was only 32 years old, all set to make a real difference in the lives of those he was soon going to touch.

John’s greatest ability was to obtain personalized support from both local elected officials and broad grassroots support. John’s this particular achievement allowed various political publications to call him the ‘new face of Chicago Democrats’. It was his hard efforts, effective leadership and incredible accomplishments that the national Democratic Leadership Council named John ‘twice’ in their ‘100 Rising Stars to Watch’ in the whole country (2000 and 2003), a matter of great pride for anyone.

Right after his election, John has always found himself focused most on the matters of campaign finance and ethics.

John Fritchey: An Introduction

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Born on March 2, 1964 at an Air Force Base (Barksdale) in Bossier City, Louisiana, John Fritchey is the son of a mother who was an immigrant from Oujda (Moroccan) and a veteran father from Vietnam.

John Fritchey shifted to Chicago along with his mother after leaving his home for three generations of his family (in Olney, Illinois) and attended a school of grammar and a high school at The Latin School of Chicago. His parents had to go through a divorced, to say precisely, his mother divorced his father and married Sidney Swibel, nouveau-rich who were a brother of real-estate magnate and the then chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority.
After studying up to his graduation and obtaining his bachelor’s degree in 1986 (Economy) from the University of Michigan, John went on to get his law degree from Northwestern University in 1989. After that, John worked at the post of Illinois Assistant Attorney General from the period 1989-1991.

Later in 1992, John got married to his wife Karen Banks, niece to William Banks, a Chicago Alderman, a long-term chairman of Chicago City Council’s Committee (zoning).
These days John lives with his own family in the DePaul neighborhood, not far from the place (just three blocks) where his grandmother used to run a family restaurant.