Full Text of HR0951 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 the people of | 4 | | Wadsworth on the 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the | 5 | | Village; and
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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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