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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3Representatives wish to congratulate Tim Smith on the occasion
4of receiving the 2025 Annual Historical Preservation Award
5from the Illiana Genealogical & Historical Society Foundation;
6and
 
7    WHEREAS, The Illiana Genealogical & Historical Society
8Foundation, located at 215 West North Street in Danville, aims
9to promote and preserve local and family history of the
10Illiana area as well as to make it more accessible to the
11public; to achieve this, the foundation annually recognizes a
12deserving individual who has made significant contributions to
13preserve local history; and
 
14    WHEREAS, Tim Smith, the sixth honoree to receive the
15Annual Historical Preservation Award, graduated from Urbana
16High School, received an undergraduate degree in history from
17the University of Illinois, and earned his Juris Doctor from
18the University of Illinois College of Law; he was married to
19the late Jane Dighton Smith, a longtime elementary school
20teacher in the Danville schools, and they have one daughter,
21Jessica Smith Diel; and
 
22    WHEREAS, Tim Smith served as a judge advocate in the U.S.

 

 

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1Navy; he then worked as an attorney in private practice in
2Danville starting in 1977, first in general practice before
3later specializing in business and real estate transactions,
4banking, wills, and trusts; he retired in 2010; and
 
5    WHEREAS, Tim Smith has been named to receive the Annual
6Historical Preservation Award for his active participation
7over the years in preserving Vermilion County and Central
8Illinois histories, primarily in researching the life and
9career of Danville's Joseph G. "Uncle Joe" Cannon, the
10legendary Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from
111903 until 1911 who ultimately held a 46-year tenure in the
12House; and
 
13    WHEREAS, Tim Smith has devoted many hours of research and
14written multiple articles and essays on Uncle Joe Cannon and
15has given numerous presentations to varied groups in the
16community about Cannon and local history, and he was involved
17in the effort to name the Vermilion County Courthouse Annex in
18honor of Cannon; he has also written on other topics of local
19historical interest, and he has been a featured writer in
20several issues of the Vermilion County Museum Society's
21quarterly magazine, The Heritage; and
 
22    WHEREAS, Tim Smith will be honored at the Illiana
23Genealogical & Historical Society Foundation's 2025 Annual

 

 

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1Historical Preservation Award Banquet on April 29, 2025;
2therefore, be it
 
3    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
4HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
5we congratulate Tim Smith on receiving the 2025 Annual
6Historical Preservation Award from the Illiana Genealogical &
7Historical Society Foundation; and be it further
 
8    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
9presented to Tim Smith as an expression of our esteem and
10respect.