Full Text of HR1392 94th General Assembly
HR1392 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to recognize the 100th | 4 |
| anniversary of the founding of the Chicago-Wilcox Mfg. Co.; and
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| WHEREAS, The company opened in 1906 with the Wilcox | 6 |
| Patented Self-Sealing Gasket as its only product; it now | 7 |
| produces over 10,000 different parts, including gaskets, | 8 |
| seals, and similar products, in its 40,000-square-foot | 9 |
| manufacturing facility, located in South Holland; and
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| WHEREAS, Stephen C. Anthony, president and owner, | 11 |
| attributes the company's longevity to a conservative | 12 |
| management style that emphasizes adaptability and commitment | 13 |
| to customers and employees; from the first, the new company | 14 |
| guaranteed that their Wilcox Patented Self-Sealing Gaskets | 15 |
| "positively will not blow out" and said in addition, | 16 |
| "unfortunately for us Wilcox gaskets do not wear out"; | 17 |
| customers wrote that their Wilcox gaskets, used for years, were | 18 |
| giving as fine service as when they were new; and
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| WHEREAS, The company is committed not only to customers, | 20 |
| but also to its employees; during the Great Depression, | 21 |
| Chicago-Wilcox went to a two-day/three-day work week, with | 22 |
| employees working two days one week and three days the next; | 23 |
| through this strategy, every employee retained his or her job, | 24 |
| and layoffs were entirely avoided; to this day, Chicago-Wilcox | 25 |
| has never resorted to employee layoffs to carry it through | 26 |
| difficult times; as a result, employee loyalty is high with | 27 |
| five employees retiring with 50 or more years of service; and
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| WHEREAS, The company outgrew its first facility and in 1967 | 29 |
| moved to South Holland; new machines and manufacturing | 30 |
| processes were added to keep pace with customers' more complex | 31 |
| needs; the company also added redistribution of products |
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| complementary to its manufactured lines; and
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| WHEREAS, In the 1990s, Chicago-Wilcox computerized the | 3 |
| inventory and order-processing systems and installed a laser; | 4 |
| in 1999, Chicago-Wilcox and DH Die Cutting merged, further | 5 |
| broadening the products that could be made and the range of | 6 |
| customers that could be served; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, Today, Chicago-Wilcox services over 1,000 | 8 |
| customers and ships approximately 14 million parts annually; | 9 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 11 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 12 |
| we recognize the 100th anniversary of the founding of the | 13 |
| Chicago-Wilcox Mfg. Co.; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to Stephen C. Anthony as an expression of our esteem.
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