This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Malecek Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1473 Message Board Post: Malecek, Cyril M. – With the development of any community comes the need for good construction work, and the men who continue to hold the patronage of the public are those who have proven their worth and stability. One of the men whose connections as a general contractor are firmly formed, is Cyril Malecek of South Wilmington, one of the leading men in his line in Grundy County. Mr. Malecek was born in Bohemia, in 1864, and there attended school and was taught the trade of cabinetmaking. In 1880 he came to the United States with his father and the rest of the family, and for a time they lived at Chicago where the father was a laborer. He retired some time prior to his death, which occurred in that city, in December, 1909. The mother passed away in the same city in 1890. There were nine children in the family: Joseph, Cyril, Veronika, Anna, Mary, Albyna, Fannie, Bessie and Josephine. Cyril M. Malecek left Chicago in 1891 for Braidwood, Ill., where he began contracting, later moving to South Wilmington, where he has since continued. Mr. Malecek has practically built this town, as he had the contract for the construction of every church and hall and the majority of the residences in the place, and his work is the best advertisement he could have. In 1889 Mr. Malecek married Annie Smolick, who was born at Chicago. Nine children have been born of this marriage: Cyril, Emma, Josephine, Rosa, Joseph, Lillian, Frank, Clara and Bessie, the last two being deceased, the former dying in infancy, and the latter when twelve years old. Mr. Malecek belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the C. S. P. S. and the C. S. B. P. S., all of Chicago. Although a Democrat, he is very liberal in his political views. Not only is he a man of capability in business, but also stands very well personally in the community that has been his home for so many useful years. Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, 1914, page 858