Full Text of HR0702 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate the City of Chicago on | 4 | | the occasion of the 185th anniversary of its founding; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Chicago, with a population hovering at | 6 | | approximately three million, is the State's largest and the | 7 | | country's third most populous city; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, A drive across Chicago's lively immigrant | 9 | | neighborhoods is a trip around the world; the cultures of | 10 | | virtually every country can be found in food stores, | 11 | | restaurants, shops, places of worship, and street-corner | 12 | | conversations; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Chicago's first permanent non-indigenous resident | 14 | | was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a free black | 15 | | man from Haiti whose father was a French sailor and whose | 16 | | mother was an African slave; he came to Chicago in the 1770s | 17 | | via the Mississippi River from New Orleans with his Native | 18 | | American wife, and their home stood at the mouth of the Chicago | 19 | | River; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago was | 21 | | ideally situated to take advantage of the trading |
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| 1 | | possibilities created by the nation's westward expansion; the | 2 | | completion of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848 created a | 3 | | water link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River; | 4 | | today, 50 percent of U.S. rail freight passes through Chicago, | 5 | | even as the city has become the nation's busiest aviation | 6 | | center, thanks to O'Hare and Midway international airports; | 7 | | and | 8 | | WHEREAS, The buildings, streets, and sidewalks of Chicago | 9 | | in its early days were made of wood, and most of them burned to | 10 | | the ground in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; the Chicago Fire | 11 | | Department training academy is on the site of the O'Leary | 12 | | property where the fire began; the Chicago Water Tower and | 13 | | Pumping Station at Michigan and Chicago avenues are among the | 14 | | few buildings to have survived the fire; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Chicago rebuilt quickly; much of the debris was | 16 | | dumped into Lake Michigan as landfill, forming the | 17 | | underpinnings for what is now Grant Park, Millennium Park, and | 18 | | the Art Institute of Chicago; only 22 years later, Chicago | 19 | | celebrated its comeback by holding the World's Columbian | 20 | | Exposition of 1893, with its memorable White City; one of the | 21 | | Exposition buildings was rebuilt to become the Museum of | 22 | | Science and Industry; and | 23 | | WHEREAS, Chicagoans have demonstrated their ingenuity in |
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| 1 | | matters large and small; the nation's first skyscraper, the | 2 | | 10-story, steel-framed Home Insurance Building, was built in | 3 | | 1884 at LaSalle and Adams streets and demolished in 1931; when | 4 | | residents were threatened by waterborne illnesses from sewage | 5 | | flowing into Lake Michigan, they reversed the Chicago River in | 6 | | 1900 to make it flow toward the Mississippi; the start of the | 7 | | Historic Route 66 begins at Grant Park on Adams Street in the | 8 | | front of the Art Institute of Chicago; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Chicago was the birthplace of the refrigerated | 10 | | rail car (Swift), mail-order retailing (Sears and Montgomery | 11 | | Ward), the car radio (Motorola), and the TV remote control | 12 | | (Zenith); the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, | 13 | | ushering in the Atomic Age, took place at the University of | 14 | | Chicago in 1942; the 1,451-foot Willis Tower, formerly known | 15 | | as the Sears Tower, completed in 1974, was the tallest | 16 | | building in the world from 1974 to 1998; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Chicago has become a global city, a thriving | 18 | | center of international trade and commerce, and a place where | 19 | | people of every nationality and background come to pursue the | 20 | | American dream; therefore, be it
| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 22 | | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 23 | | we congratulate the City of Chicago on the 185th anniversary |
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| 1 | | of its founding and wish the city many more wonderful years; | 2 | | and be it further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the Mayor of Chicago as symbol of our respect and | 5 | | esteem.
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