Aldo DeAngelis

Aldo A. DeAngelis (March 13, 1931 – February 13, 2004) was an American politician and businessman.

Born in Chicago Heights, Illinois, DeAngelis graduated from Bloom Township High School. He served in the United States Army. DeAngelis graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He also sent to University of Chicago and Governors State University. He moved to Texas and started a steel and tube company. He then moved back to Chicago Heights, Illinois, and started the Vulcan Metal and Tube Company. He served in the Illinois State Senate from 1979 to 1997. DeAngelis then sold his business. During the 1990s, DeAngelis served as a member of the Illinois Republican Party Central Committee from Illinois's 4th congressional district.[1]

In 1990, he was the Republican nominee for President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. While he lost that election, he was elected a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in the coinciding election for the board's members.

After DeAngelis left the Illinois General Assembly, DeAngelis worked as a lobbyist and consultant. DeAngelis died of a heart attack at his home in Olympia Fields, Illinois.[2][3]

Notes
  1. Ryan, George, ed. (1993). "State and Local Government Facts". Illinois Blue Book 1993-1994. p. 430.
  2. 'Illinois Blue Book 1995–1996,' Biographical Sketch of Aldo A. DeAngelis, pg. 105
  3. 'Aldo Deangelis, 72, Longtime leading GOP legislator,' Chicago Tribune, Stanley Ziemba, Barbara Sherlock, William Persecky, Chicago Tribune, February 14, 2004


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