Recipients of civil union license: 'We wanted to make a statement'

Dan82 · Jun 1, 2011

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...civil-union-licenses-20110601,0,3760549.story

Every Valentine's Day for the past seven or eight years, Roseann Szalkowski and Barb McMillan walked into the DuPage County Clerk's office to ask for a marriage license, and every year the answer was the same: no.

Today, promptly at 8 a.m. when the clerk's office opened, McMillan asked department supervisor Judi Wilkovich the same question.

"I'd like to ask for a marriage license," said McMillan, tears welling in her eyes. An equally emotional Wilkovich, who for years was saddened to turn the couple away, again couldn't grant a marriage license, but she told the couple, "I'm happy to say that you can apply for a civil union license."

Amid applause from clerk's office workers, Szalkowski, 50, and McMillan, 60, who come from Roselle and have been together 11 years, were the first to be granted a civil union license in DuPage County.

Illinois is now the sixth state that allows civil unions or their equivalent, and two other states — Hawaii and Delaware — have passed civil-union laws that have not yet been enacted...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...civil-union-licenses-20110601,0,3760549.story
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Thatsit · Jun 1, 2011

Yay I'm from Illinois

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