Full Text of HR0731 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Union Pacific | 4 | | Railroad on the 150th anniversary of the railroad in 2012; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific | 6 | | Railway Act of July 1, 1862, creating the original Union | 7 | | Pacific; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Union Pacific is the largest railroad in the Rail | 9 | | Capital of Chicago; the Proviso Rail Yard is located in | 10 | | Northlake, Bellwood, Berkeley, and Melrose Park and is one of | 11 | | the largest rail yards in the company's system; 25% of all of | 12 | | the rail traffic on the Union Pacific travels through the | 13 | | Chicago Rail Terminal; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Union Pacific has rail yards throughout the State | 15 | | of Illinois located in Dolton, Chicago Heights, Rochelle, West | 16 | | Chicago, Dupo, and Salem, and has 2,201 miles of track | 17 | | traversing hundreds of communities; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Union Pacific serves 115,000 commuters daily on | 19 | | the Union Pacific Metra North, Northwest, and West Lines, and | 20 | | operates more trains for Metra than any other carrier in the | 21 | | Chicagoland area; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Today, Union Pacific Railroad is the principal | 2 | | operating company of Union Pacific Corporation, linking 23 | 3 | | states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail and | 4 | | providing freight solutions and logistics expertise to the | 5 | | global supply chain; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Major commodities transported by Union Pacific | 7 | | include corn, soybeans, automobile parts, completed | 8 | | automobiles, and general merchandise; particularly important | 9 | | to the company is the coal mining industry in southern | 10 | | Illinois; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Union Pacific's capital investment in Illinois | 12 | | was more than $470 million over the last 2 years; in 2010, | 13 | | Union Pacific had 4,035 employees in Illinois with an annual | 14 | | payroll of $327.3 million; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Union Pacific, during the height of the Great | 16 | | Recession in 2009, spent $370 million to construct the Joliet | 17 | | Intermodal Terminal, creating thousands of transportation and | 18 | | construction jobs to compliment their other 6 intermodal | 19 | | container terminals throughout the State that collectively | 20 | | lift 1.3 million containers annually; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, Union Pacific partners with the State of Illinois, |
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| 1 | | the City of Chicago, and Metra in a number of public private | 2 | | partnerships, such as the CREATE Program, UP Metra West Line | 3 | | Improvement Project, and the Illinois High Speed Rail Project; | 4 | | and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Union Pacific provided more than $675,000 to | 6 | | charitable organizations in the State; therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 8 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 9 | | we congratulate Union Pacific Railroad on its 150th | 10 | | anniversary; and be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to Union Pacific Railroad as a symbol of our respect | 13 | | and esteem.
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