Illinois HR 456: CONGRATS - MICHAEL J. TARDY

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HR0456LRB104 15243 MST 28393 r

1HOUSE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, Bob Newhart was one of America's most beloved and 

3celebrated comedians, achieving overnight fame and meteoric 

4success with the 1960 release of his breakthrough comedy 

5album, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart; and

6 WHEREAS, Bob Newhart was a native of Chicago's Austin 

7community, spending the first 30 years of his life as an 

8apartment dweller living near Columbus Park; he was a graduate 

9of Chicago's St. Ignatius High School and Loyola University 

10and a generous donor to his alma maters, endowing a theater at 

11Loyola in his family's name; and

12 WHEREAS, Bob Newhart was a star performer at Chicago's 

13famed Mr. Kelly's nightclub, and his debut album was the 

14first, and remains the only, comedy album to win the Grammy 

15Award for Record of the Year, which beat extraordinarily tough 

16competition, including records by some of the 20th century's 

17most celebrated recording artists such as Frank Sinatra and 

18Harry Belafonte; and

19 WHEREAS, Bob Newhart was arguably the most successful 

20sitcom actor in television history, starring in two 

21long-running, highly-rated programs that aired for an 

22extraordinary combined 14 years, as well as three other 

HR0456- 2 -LRB104 15243 MST 28393 r

1programs; and

2 WHEREAS, Bob Newhart's acclaimed 1970s show, The Bob 

3Newhart Show, was the first major sitcom set in Chicago and 

4often referenced area locations and institutions and greatly 

5enhanced the city's profile nationally during a time when 

6cities, and Chicago in particular, were struggling; and

7 WHEREAS, Bob Newhart was widely considered a genuinely 

8nice guy in the often cutthroat world of show business and 

9always pr