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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the board and | ||||||
4 | administration of The Youth Campus on the occasion of the | ||||||
5 | organization's 100th anniversary of service in the City of Park | ||||||
6 | Ridge; and
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7 | WHEREAS, The rich history of what would become The Youth | ||||||
8 | Campus began in 1876, when Mrs. Delia Louise Rockwood Wardner, | ||||||
9 | wife of Brigade Surgeon Horace Wardner, accompanied her husband | ||||||
10 | to Cairo, Illinois, and soon realized the great need of the | ||||||
11 | many homeless and destitute children, especially girls, | ||||||
12 | brought to Cairo after the war; she gathered support to found | ||||||
13 | the Illinois Industrial School for Girls in 1877 as "a home and | ||||||
14 | proper training school" for girls orphaned by the Civil War; | ||||||
15 | and
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16 | WHEREAS, For 32 years, the Illinois Industrial School for | ||||||
17 | Girls operated in Evanston; in 1908, the school moved to a | ||||||
18 | 40-acre farm in Park Ridge, completing the move in 1910; Hannah | ||||||
19 | Greenebaum Solomon, a civic and social welfare activist, led | ||||||
20 | the reorganization of the school's financial structure; her | ||||||
21 | considerable social connections permitted her to invite | ||||||
22 | generous philanthropic support, including a charitable | ||||||
23 | baseball game in the future Comiskey Park; Mrs. Solomon also |
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1 | invited her close friend Jane Addams, the founder of modern | ||||||
2 | social work and Chicago's Hull House, to join the school's | ||||||
3 | board; together, the pair brought the "English Cottage" model | ||||||
4 | to the school, which called for small individual homes managed | ||||||
5 | by a housemother in lieu of large congregate care orphanages; | ||||||
6 | in 1913, the name of the school was changed to the Park Ridge | ||||||
7 | School for Girls; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The Park Ridge School for Girls grew steadily over | ||||||
9 | the following 60 years, with the program's educational programs | ||||||
10 | improving dramatically; by the 1950s and 1960s, those living at | ||||||
11 | the campus attended the local high school and were afforded the | ||||||
12 | best schooling and opportunities for higher education; in 1977, | ||||||
13 | the school celebrated its 100th anniversary and the school's | ||||||
14 | new residential teen pregnancy care program was announced, | ||||||
15 | making the school one of only 2 such programs in the State; and
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16 | WHEREAS, In 1980, boys were admitted for the first time to | ||||||
17 | the Park Ridge School for Girls; that same year, the Teaching | ||||||
18 | Family model of care was adopted and the name was changed to | ||||||
19 | the Park Ridge Youth Campus; in 1992, foster care became a new | ||||||
20 | focus for the organization and prompted the opening of a | ||||||
21 | Chicago office from which to recruit, train, and support foster | ||||||
22 | families across the Chicago area; to indicate this broadening | ||||||
23 | of scope, the organization was renamed The Youth Campus; and
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1 | WHEREAS, In 1994, The Youth Campus began a program for | ||||||
2 | Medically Complex Infants treated children suffering from the | ||||||
3 | effects of drug exposure, which went on for several years; and
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4 | WHEREAS, Today, The Youth Campus serves hundreds of | ||||||
5 | children through many programs in its facilities in Park Ridge | ||||||
6 | and Chicago, including adolescent Residential Treatment in | ||||||
7 | Park Ridge for girls 12-18 years old, Caregive Support for | ||||||
8 | biological and foster parents of medically and | ||||||
9 | developmentally-challenged infants and children in Cook | ||||||
10 | County, and recruiting, licensing, and training programs for | ||||||
11 | foster care and adoption; and | ||||||
12 | WHEREAS, The board and administration of The Youth Campus | ||||||
13 | serve as models of hard work, integrity, and dedication for the | ||||||
14 | people of the State of Illinois; therefore, be it
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15 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
16 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
17 | congratulate the board and administration of The Youth Campus | ||||||
18 | on the occasion of the organization's 100th anniversary of | ||||||
19 | service in the City of Park Ridge and wish them continued | ||||||
20 | success and happiness in the future; and be it further
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21 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
22 | presented to the Board of Directors of The Youth Campus as a |
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1 | symbol of our esteem and respect.
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