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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of

3 Representatives are pleased to congratulate the Streamwood

4 Park District on the occasion of the addition of the Hoosier

5 Grove Schoolhouse Museum to the Country School Association of

6 America's national historic register; and

7 WHEREAS, The rich history of the Hoosier Grove Schoolhouse

8 Museum began in 1904, when local farmers in the Hanover

9 Township area got together with a carpenter from Bartlett to

10 build a one-room schoolhouse for their children; thanks in part

11 to the donation of an acre of land from a local farmer, the

12 schoolhouse was completed in the summer of 1904; and

13 WHEREAS, With the school's location between Hanover and

14 Schaumburg Townships, the school was deemed to be in School

15 District 43 1/2; about 20 students attended school there every

16 year in grades 1 through 8 between 1904 and 1954, when the

17 school closed; the school was moved to its present location at

18 700 West Irving Park Road in Streamwood in 1988; and

19 WHEREAS, The diligent efforts of Rich Janiec and Linda

20 Zimmerman, who championed the effort to gather documents and

21 photographs and submit the collected data to the Country School

22 Association of America, were acknowledged by a letter and

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1 certificate received from the Country School Association of

2 America in November of 2009 that announced that the schoolhouse

3 had met all the criteria and was to be awarded landmark status;

4 and

5 WHEREAS, Through the efforts of the members of the

6 Streamwood Bicentennial Commission, the Streamwood Historical

7 Society, the Streamwood Village Board of Trustees, the

8 Streamwood Park District, Rich Janiec, and Linda Zimmerman, the

9 Hoosier Grove Schoolhouse Museum has become one of only 18

10 one-room schoolhouses in America to be added to the Country

11 School Association of America's National Historic Register;

12 therefore, be it

13 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE

14 NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that

15 we congratulate the combined efforts of those involved and the

16 efforts of many unknown volunteers on the occasion of the

17 addition of the Hoosier Grove Schoolhouse Museum to the Country

18 School Association of America's National Historic Register;

19 and be it further

20 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be

21 presented to Rich Janiec and Linda Zimmerman as a symbol of our

22 esteem and respect.