[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 93 (Friday, June 29, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1247-E1248]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     IN RECOGNITION OF DANIEL LEVIN

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                          HON. DANNY K. DAVIS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 28, 2001

  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize one of 
Chicago's finest citizens, Mr. Daniel Levin, who last week was named 
the American Jewish Committee's 2001 Human Rights Medallion Award 
recipient.
  Since 1963, the Human Rights Medallion has been awarded annually to 
leading Chicago citizens who have stood for the goals that have shaped 
the American Jewish Committee since it was established in 1906: human 
rights and equal opportunity for all, and constructive relations 
between America's many religious, ethnic and racial communities.
  Chairman of The Habitat Company, Dan Levin has been a real estate 
developer since 1957. He has been active in development and management 
activities involving in excess of 20,000 residential units, and has 
been principally responsible for the financing, structuring and equity 
syndication of the developments. In 1987, Dan Levin, with The Habitat 
Company, was appointed Receiver of The Chicago Housing Authority family 
housing development program by the U.S. District Court in Chicago. He 
is also the managing general partner of the East Bank Club, which is 
considered the finest physical fitness and social facility of its kind 
in the country.
  Dan Levin's first major Chicago development, in partnership with 
James P. McHugh of McHugh-Levin Associates, was South Commons, a 30-
acre urban renewal site between 26th and 31st Street on the south side 
of the City. During his career, he has also developed a wide variety of 
subsidized and non-subsidized housing including, on the South Side, 
Quadrangle House and Long Grove House. Dan Levin also developed Wheaton 
Center, a 28-acre urban renewal development in downtown Wheaton. On 
Chicago's Gold Coast, he has developed, among other properties, 
Newberry Plaza, Huron Plaza, Asbury Plaza, Columbus Plaza and the 
Residences of Cityfront Center.
  The largest urban redevelopment in which Dan Levin has been involved 
is the Presidential Towers complex located on a two square block area 
in the near west loop constructed in 1983. The land on which 
Presidential Towers was developed had become a skid row district of 
deteriorating residential hotels and industrial properties. 
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Towers is considered to be a major factor in the revitalization of the 
area.
  Dan Levin graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. and 
J.D. degree. He is a member of the Visiting Committee of the University 
of Chicago School of Public Policy, a Trustee of WTTW, a member of the 
IIT College of Architecture Board of Overseers, a member of the Board 
of Trustees for the Jewish Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, a 
Director of the American Jewish Committee, a Director of the 
Environmental Law and Policy Center, a Director of the Multi-Family 
Housing Council, and is active in other community and professional 
organizations.
  Dan Levin has proven that he is a man to emulate in both business and 
in public service. He has helped to create homes, jobs and other 
opportunities for people in need of a helping hand, and he has played a 
major role in the economic growth and development of Chicago. It is 
with great pleasure that I commend Dan Levin for his years of service 
and congratulate him on being named this year's Human Rights Medallion 
awardee. Mr. Speaker, I ask that you join our colleagues, Dan's 
friends, his wife Fay and the rest of his family, the American Jewish 
Committee, and me in recognizing Dan Levin's outstanding and invaluable 
service to the Chicago community.

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