The Illinois General Assembly passed a resolution Thursday that honored Ryan Rendleman, a former university student who died in an April 29 car accident while covering an assignment for the Daily Egyptian.

The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie and Rep. John Bradley, extended its sympathies to the Rendleman family and recognized his contributions to the state.

Rendleman, a 22-year-old photojournalist from Batavia, will become the first collegiate journalist from the United States to be named on Newseum’s Journalists Memorial wall, which remembers journalists who have died while covering assignments.

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Newseum, a news museum operated by the Freedom Forum, will honor Rendleman and nearly 60 other journalists March 30.

The resolution will be presented to the Rendleman family and the university.’ ‘