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HR0545 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


  

 


 
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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3Representatives wish to congratulate Bill Rodeghier on the
4occasion of his retirement as Western Springs Village
5President; and
 
6    WHEREAS, Bill Rodeghier has been a member of the Western
7Springs Village Board for 12 years, eight of those were spent
8as president; and
 
9    WHEREAS, Bill Rodeghier was born in the Edison Park
10neighborhood of Chicago; he attended Quigley North High School
11and graduated from Loyola University with a degree in classical
12languages; he began teaching Latin at Weber High School in
13Chicago before being drafted into the United States Army in
141970; he was sent to the Army language school in El Paso, Texas
15and then to Army headquarters in Da Nang, Vietnam; he was
16discharged in 1972 and attended the Chicago-Kent College of Law
17on the GI Bill; he was admitted to the bar in 1975; and
 
18    WHEREAS, Bill Rodeghier married Kathy in 1976 and they
19settled in Western Springs in 1977; they have lived in their
20Field Park house for 40 years and have two children, Ed and
21Mary; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, Bill Rodeghier was elected Western Springs
2Village Board Trustee in 2005, and village president in 2009;
3in 2013, he became the first Western Springs Village President
4to be elected to a second term; and
 
5    WHEREAS, During his tenure, Bill Rodeghier served as a
6board member at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning;
7he was a member of the Council of Mayors and participated in
8the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program;
9he also served as a member of the executive committee of the
10West Central Municipal Conference and served as its president
11in 2016; therefore, be it
 
12    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
13HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
14congratulate Bill Rodeghier on his retirement as Western
15Springs Village President, and we wish him the best in all his
16future endeavors; and be it further
 
17    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
18presented to Bill Rodeghier as a symbol of our respect and
19esteem.