HR0313 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives are pleased to congratulate the administration, faculty, staff, students, and alumni of Loyola University Chicago on the creation of the Center for Public Service and the acquisition of the congressional papers and archives of retired Congressman Henry J. Hyde; and

WHEREAS, The newly created center will also house the papers of former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, who donated his archives to the University in 1995; and

WHEREAS, Anchored by the government archives of these prominent Illinois statesmen, the center, a non-partisan academic unit, will primarily focus on leadership, highlighting the impact that individual men and women can have upon a civil society through their dedication to public service; and

WHEREAS, Loyola's Center for Public Service will be housed on the third floor of the University's new Information Commons, a 72,000-square-foot, four-level, state-of-the-art library and multi-use educational building that has been designed to achieve the Silver Level Leadership in Environmental Engineering and Design; and

WHEREAS, The building, located on Loyola's Lake Shore Campus, overlooks Lake Michigan and is expected to open in early 2008; and

WHEREAS, The center will concentrate on five main program areas: sponsoring research and scholarship, hosting special exhibits, conferences, a speaker's series, and workshops; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate Loyola University Chicago on the creation of the Center for Public Service and the acquisition of the congressional papers and archives of retired Congressman Henry J. Hyde; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., president, Loyola University Chicago, as a symbol of our respect.