HJ0052 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, In early 1869, the Village of Glencoe was a small community of less than 30 homes, a few local stores, a country school, a church, and a railway station connected by dirt roads; it was first settled by Anson Taylor and several German and English immigrant families only 30 years earlier; and

WHEREAS, Village founder Dr. Alexander Hammond and his investors from the Glencoe Company developed and planned the community before the first plan commission in the early 1920s; and

WHEREAS, Glencoe was granted a special charter by the General Assembly on March 29, 1869; and

WHEREAS, Glencoe is under the leadership of Village President Lawrence Levin and Village Trustees Greg Turner, Jonathan Vree, Peter Mulvaney, Barbara Miller, Gail Lissner, and Dale Thomas; and

WHEREAS, Glencoe's residential development represents a museum of domestic architectural styles dating from the mid-19th century, including the work of noted American architects William Boyington, Howard van Doren Shaw, David Adler, George Fred, William Keck, and George W. Maher, among others, renown landscape architects Jens Jensen and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., and, most notably, the third largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright designed structures in the world; and

WHEREAS, With its wooded bluffs and deep ravines that led early map makers to declare Glencoe as "Queen of the Suburbs," the beauty of this community has been preserved through the conservation of Lakefront Park and enhanced over the years with numerous additional parks, the development of the Green Bay Trail, and the establishment of the Chicago Botanic Garden in 1972; and

WHEREAS, The people who have created, developed, and kept this community vibrant since its incorporation represent a uniquely diverse group of residents from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, from all religious backgrounds, and from all trade and business backgrounds who have shared at least one common bond, their love of and commitment to Glencoe; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we declare March 29, 2019 as "Glencoe Sesquicentennial Day" in the State of Illinois; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Village of Glencoe President Lawrence Levin as a symbol of our respect and esteem.