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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Ken and Jackie Pickerill were united in marriage | ||||||
| 3 | on August 16, 1953, in DeKalb; the couple spent 48 years | ||||||
| 4 | together until Jackie's passing in 2001; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Ken Pickerill built the first baseball field at | ||||||
| 6 | what is now Traughber Junior High School in 1956; years later, | ||||||
| 7 | he funded several projects on the grounds of Oswego High | ||||||
| 8 | School, including one of his proudest accomplishments, | ||||||
| 9 | "Jackie's Field of Dreams", after his late wife, which is now | ||||||
| 10 | home to the Oswego Cats and members of the American Amateur | ||||||
| 11 | Baseball Congress; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Ken and Jackie Pickerill were both teachers at | ||||||
| 13 | Oswego High School before opening the Jacqueline Shop in 1957 | ||||||
| 14 | in downtown Oswego; Jackie left teaching after 1957 to work | ||||||
| 15 | full-time in the store; and | ||||||
| 16 | WHEREAS, Following his retirement from teaching, Ken | ||||||
| 17 | Pickerill continued to oversee Oswego athletics as Oswego High | ||||||
| 18 | School's head baseball, wrestling, and football coach; he | ||||||
| 19 | coached the Panthers to 3 undefeated seasons in a row between | ||||||
| 20 | 1958 and 1960; from 1955 to 1969, he served as Oswego High | ||||||
| 21 | School's Athletic Director; he was inducted into the Oswego | ||||||
| 22 | High School Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1976 and the Football | ||||||
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| 1 | Hall of Fame in 2000; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, To honor his years of coaching and support of | ||||||
| 3 | Oswego athletics, the Oswego High School Football Stadium was | ||||||
| 4 | named Ken Pickerill Stadium in 2005; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Jackie Pickerill founded the well-known ladies | ||||||
| 6 | fashion apparel store, Jacqueline Shop of Oswego in 1957; she | ||||||
| 7 | was one of the founders and a past president of the Oswego | ||||||
| 8 | Business Association; she was also highly regarded in the | ||||||
| 9 | women's fashion industry and served as a board member of the | ||||||
| 10 | Apparel Fashion Center in Chicago; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Ken and Jackie Pickerill both individually and | ||||||
| 12 | collectively contributed endless leadership, dedication, and | ||||||
| 13 | support to the Oswego community and beyond; therefore, be it
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| 14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 15 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
| 16 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we designate the active bridge | ||||||
| 17 | spanning the Fox River on Washington Street and Route 34 in | ||||||
| 18 | Oswego as the Ken and Jackie Pickerill Commemorative Bridge in | ||||||
| 19 | honor of their work; and be it further
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| 20 | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation | ||||||
| 21 | is requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with | ||||||
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| 1 | State and federal regulations, plaques or signs giving notice | ||||||
| 2 | of the Ken and Jackie Pickerill Commemorative Bridge; and be it | ||||||
| 3 | further | ||||||
| 4 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 5 | presented to the Illinois Secretary of Transportation and the | ||||||
| 6 | Village of Oswego.
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