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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
| 3 | | Representatives wish to honor former State Representative Tom |
| 4 | | Cross for his service to Kendall County, Will County, and the |
| 5 | | State of Illinois; and
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| 6 | | WHEREAS, Rep. Cross grew up in northeastern Illinois, |
| 7 | | graduating from Yorkville High School in 1976;
after graduating |
| 8 | | from law school, he returned to northeastern Illinois and |
| 9 | | defended
public safety as an assistant prosecutor in the office |
| 10 | | of Kendall County State's Attorney
Dallas Ingemunson; and
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| 11 | | WHEREAS, Kendall County and western Will County enjoyed |
| 12 | | strong population growth in the 1980s;
this created new |
| 13 | | challenges but also led to the creation of a new seat in the |
| 14 | | Illinois House in
1991; Rep. Cross was urged to use this |
| 15 | | opportunity to step up his service to his home
communities;
in |
| 16 | | March of 1992, he won a primary race for the new seat by a 3-1 |
| 17 | | margin, and, in
November of 1992, he won a landslide victory |
| 18 | | with a vote total of 57.9%, to earn his first term in the
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| 19 | | Illinois House of Representatives;
in January of 1993, with his |
| 20 | | prosecutorial experience, he was chosen to serve as |
| 21 | | vice-spokesperson on the House Judiciary-Criminal
Law |
| 22 | | Committee; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Aware of the commuting challenges facing his |
| 2 | | fast-growing district, Rep. Cross asked
for, and received, a |
| 3 | | seat on the House Transportation and Motor Vehicles Committee; |
| 4 | | for more than 20 years, he has paid attention to the |
| 5 | | public-safety and the
transportation-infrastructure needs of |
| 6 | | his neighbors and the communities he has represented; in |
| 7 | | January of 1995, when House Republicans took over the majority, |
| 8 | | he became Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary-Civil |
| 9 | | Law, using his committee to
create legal reforms and fighting |
| 10 | | for Illinois economic growth and development; this theme
would |
| 11 | | be a focus of his State and local leadership; and
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| 12 | | WHEREAS, Throughout the 1990s, Rep. Cross continued to |
| 13 | | fight for civil and criminal legal reforms and for
State |
| 14 | | infrastructure and development, winning the respect of his |
| 15 | | Springfield colleagues as he
had won the respect of his |
| 16 | | neighbors in his home district; in January of 2003, his House |
| 17 | | colleagues chose him to be their House Republican
Leader, a |
| 18 | | post in which he would continue to serve for more than 10 |
| 19 | | years; and
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| 20 | | WHEREAS, The trends of economic and social change south of |
| 21 | | Aurora and west of Joliet have made it all
the more obvious |
| 22 | | that civil justice reform, a tough but compassionate structure |
| 23 | | of State
criminal law, and a productivity-oriented |
| 24 | | infrastructure are necessary pieces to make a bright
future for |
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| 1 | | the people of this fast-growing area and for all of Illinois; |
| 2 | | therefore be it; therefore, be it
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| 3 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
| 4 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
| 5 | | honor former State Representative Tom Cross for his service to |
| 6 | | Kendall County, Will County, and the State of Illinois and wish |
| 7 | | him and his family the best in all their future endeavors; and |
| 8 | | be it further
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| 9 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
| 10 | | presented to Rep. Cross as an expression of our esteem and |
| 11 | | respect.
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