Downers Grove Shelter Receives Share of Lemont Man's $1.5 Million Trust
Sylvester Czopek, who died in 2011 at age 84, left more than $1 million to five no-kill, Chicago-area animal shelters, including the West Suburban Humane Society in Downers Grove.
A Downers Grove shelter will have extra funds to care for rescued animals this year thanks to a surprise donation from a Lemont man. Sylvester Czopek, 84, died in a Joliet hospice in October 2011. He was a Korean war veteran, and the last of five brothers—all of whom never married. With no living heirs, Czopek set up a trust that directed his $1.5 million estate to five no-kill animal shelters in the Chicago area: Will County Humane Society in Shorewood, the Naperville Area Humane Society, PAWS Chicago Adoption Center, the Animal Welfare League in Chicago Ridge and West Suburban Humane Society in Downers Grove. The shelters received word of the generous donation in early December, just before the holiday season. Each will receive an equal …
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