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| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Galena Trail is one of the oldest known |
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| pathways in the midwest; from the dawn of Indian times in |
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| Illinois, the Trail has linked the upper Mississippi Basin with |
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| Lake Peoria; in 1833, Levi Warner surveyed a Coach Road that |
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| was built alongside and parallel to the older Galena Trail; and
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| WHEREAS, Together, the Galena Trail and the Coach Road |
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| formed an intertwining pathway for American progress; and
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| WHEREAS, Today, travelers can drive along the Galena Trail |
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| by using a series of State, county, and township roads from |
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| Peoria in the south to Galena in the north, through the |
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| counties of Peoria, Marshall, Bureau, Lee, Ogle, Carroll, |
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| Stephenson, and Jo Daviess; and
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| WHEREAS, The Galena Trail and Coach Road can expand |
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| tourism, promote recreational opportunities, conserve the |
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| landscape, and celebrate historical and cultural resources; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| CONCURRING HEREIN, that we urge the Illinois Department of |
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| Transportation and the appropriate local agencies to erect, at |
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| suitable locations consistent with State and federal |
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| regulations, appropriate signs giving notice of the Galena |
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| Trail and Coach Road; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |
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| presented to the Secretary of Transportation and to the |
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| appropriate local agencies.
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