Full Text of HR0049 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Mount Prospect was founded by a group of stalwart | 3 | | German immigrants, and today continues to be populated by a | 4 | | diverse population of residents from all over the world, living | 5 | | and working together; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, In 1874, a land speculator, named Ezra Eggleston, | 7 | | saw the area's potential; he built a train station and plotted | 8 | | a town on paper, naming it Mount Prospect; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, In the 1880s, hard-working Germans like John C. | 10 | | Moehling, John Meyn, and William Wille picked up where | 11 | | Eggleston left off, creating a small commerce center beside the | 12 | | tracks, close to Eggleston's train station; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, In 1894, William Busse, a man with lots of | 14 | | political influence in Cook County, settled in town and made | 15 | | Mount Prospect's development a personal priority project; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, In 1910, industry came to Mount Prospect; the | 17 | | Utility Battery Company and Mount Prospect Creamery were | 18 | | established; a year later, in 1911, the Mount Prospect | 19 | | Improvement Association was founded to make civic improvements | 20 | | such as kerosene street lamps, sidewalks, and oiled streets; | 21 | | Northwest Power and Light Company was also built that same |
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| 1 | | year; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, In 1917, 100 years ago, Mount Prospect reached a | 3 | | population of 300 and incorporated as a village, allowing it to | 4 | | enact its own laws and levy taxes to pay for roads, schools, | 5 | | and other public improvements; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Mount Prospect was ahead of its time when it | 7 | | welcomed a female physician, Dr. Louise Koester, in 1926, well | 8 | | before women physicians were common; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, In 1930, Mount Prospect was the only city or | 10 | | village in Cook County that was not out of money and remained | 11 | | open during the Great Depression; the tradition of very | 12 | | conservative money choices kept both the Village and the Mount | 13 | | Prospect State Bank from going bankrupt; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Mount Prospect boomed during the post-World War II | 15 | | years, increasing its population from 1,720 in 1940 to 18,906 | 16 | | in 1960; it continued to grow by leaps and bounds, reaching | 17 | | 52,634 in 1980; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Mount Prospect contributed to the world when | 19 | | George Stephen invented the Weber Kettle grill at his Mount | 20 | | Prospect home on Can-Dota Avenue in 1952; from those humble | 21 | | beginnings, he launched a firm that sells millions of dollars |
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| 1 | | of charcoal and gas grills annually; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In 1960, Randhurst Mall, the country's first | 3 | | indoor, air conditioned mall, opened; in 2008, the mall was | 4 | | rebuilt as an outdoor lifestyle center, which is currently a | 5 | | thriving commercial area filled with well-known chain stores | 6 | | and restaurants, specialty shops, a movie theater, and more; | 7 | | and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Mount Prospect has been preparing for its | 9 | | centennial for over three years and, in the process, has | 10 | | identified 33 homes and five commercial/religious/public | 11 | | structures that date to the year of incorporation of 1917 or | 12 | | earlier; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Mount Prospect has planned 18 months of | 14 | | celebrations, including fireworks, a reenactment of | 15 | | incorporation festivities, a festive dinner dance, a | 16 | | community-wide fire hydrant painting project, and much more; | 17 | | therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 19 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 20 | | recognize the 100th anniversary of the founding of Mount | 21 | | Prospect and we wish it many more successful years; and be it | 22 | | further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Mount Prospect Mayor Arlene A. Juracek.
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