Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello: Reflections on Twenty-Two Years in the Illinois Senate

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Rock, running for the Illinois Senate for the first time, and his opponent, Marie Pedersen, featured on the cover of the weekly paper the Austinite, October 14, 1970, published on the West Side of Chicago. Wedding photo, Sheila Graber and Philip J. Rock, 1964. Author’s collection From left, congressional candidate Mike Glasso, Illinois Attorney General William Clark, and Rock. Author’s collection. Rock enjoying a victory in his district office in Oak Park, along with Senator Jerome Joyce (left), Ed Arman (behind Rock), and Rock’s brother, Mike. Author’s collection. Rock with young campaign workers in his Oak Park office. Author’s collection. Rock making a point in the Senate with Senator Vince Demuzio beside him. Photo by Ken Burnette. Leaders at the McCormick Place expansion ceremony, October 1984. Left to right: Governor James R. Thompson, Mayor Harold Washington, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, and Rock. Photo by Kee Chang, Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Rock attending a hearing in the suburbs at which people opposed the expansion of O’Hare Airport. Left to right: Rock, Representative Lee Daniels, Senator James “Pate” Philip, and Illinois congressman Henry Hyde. Author’s collection. Rock on the Senate floor with William Holland, his chief of staff. Author’s collection. Rock speaking from his seat in the Illinois Senate. Author’s collection. Rock making a point while holding up his scribbled notes on the back of an envelope, one of his trademark poses. Photo by Michael Fryer, Chicago Tribune. Republican minority leader James “Pate” Philip (left) conferring with Rock. Photo by Ken Burnette. Rock and Illinois senator Jerome Joyce (center), a great friend of Rock’s from Kankakee County, visiting with presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, 1988. Author’s collection. House Speaker Michael Madigan and Rock meeting the press. Photo by Michael Fryer, Chicago Tribune. Governor James R. Thompson and Rock singing “Danny Boy” at a fund-raiser for Maryville Academy. Chicago alderman Ed Burke is at the piano. Author’s collection. Rock at his Oak Park office after leaving the Senate, 1996. He was still the Oak Park Township committeeman. Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest. Mayor Richard M. Daley (left) with Rock and Dan Fusco, Rock’s law partner. Author’s collection. Rock in the Old State Capitol with leaders of the Illinois Women in Government program in the 1990s. Left to right: Maralee Lindley, Margery Benson, Alice Phillips, Linda Kingman, Rock, Betsy Tracy, and Bonnie Ettinger. Photo courtesy of Bonnie Ettinger. ...