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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 people of | ||||||
| 4 | Wadsworth on the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the | ||||||
| 5 | Village; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, The Wadsworth area was not settled as early as | ||||||
| 7 | many other communities in Lake County; it was not until the | ||||||
| 8 | mid-1840s that people followed the upper reaches of the Des | ||||||
| 9 | Plaines River to the area's great oak groves and meadows; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, In 1873, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul | ||||||
| 11 | Railroad completed the construction of a line between Milwaukee | ||||||
| 12 | and Chicago which ran along the east bank of the Des Plaines | ||||||
| 13 | River; hoping to increase his land's value, local farmer John | ||||||
| 14 | Lux platted a village site in 1874; the "Milwaukee Road" | ||||||
| 15 | accepted the plat as a station stop, naming it Wadsworth after | ||||||
| 16 | Elisha Wadsworth, a major Milwaukee Road stockholder; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, A post office opened in Wadsworth in 1874, but the | ||||||
| 18 | station was primarily used as a milk collection point for the | ||||||
| 19 | area's numerous large dairy farms for Chicago delivery; because | ||||||
| 20 | of the large amount of clay found in the area, 2 drainage tile | ||||||
| 21 | factories and a brick factory came into operation near the | ||||||
| 22 | station by 1886; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Since much undeveloped land still remained around | ||||||
| 2 | Wadsworth in 1958, Tempel Smith, owner of Tempel Steel Company | ||||||
| 3 | of Chicago, decided to purchase 5,000 acres next to the | ||||||
| 4 | original village for Tempel Farms, home to a troupe of noted | ||||||
| 5 | Lipizzan horses; and | ||||||
| 6 | WHEREAS, In 1962, most residents feared the annexation of | ||||||
| 7 | the land surrounding Wadsworth, including Tempel Farms, into an | ||||||
| 8 | aggressively expanding Waukegan; Wadsworth's residents voted | ||||||
| 9 | to incorporate their village and elected Albert Heiser the | ||||||
| 10 | first village president that same year; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, The Village of Wadsworth will celebrate | ||||||
| 12 | incorporation with a 50th Anniversary Community Celebration | ||||||
| 13 | from August 17-19, 2012; 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, that | ||||||
| 16 | we congratulate the people of Wadsworth and wish them the best | ||||||
| 17 | for the future; and be it further
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| 18 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 19 | presented to Village President Glenn Ryback as a symbol of our | ||||||
| 20 | respect and esteem.
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