Full Text of SJR0036 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, It is highly fitting that the Illinois General | 3 | | Assembly pays honor and respect to the truly great individuals | 4 | | who have served their communities; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Adam Streicher dreamed of being a | 6 | | police officer at a young age; he started as a Police Explorer | 7 | | in high school and later attended college to earn a criminal | 8 | | justice degree while working as a Code Enforcer for the City of | 9 | | Kewanee; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Adam Streicher worked for the | 11 | | Villages of Atkinson, Sheffield, and Annawan, which was his | 12 | | hometown, before accepting employment as a Sheriff's Deputy for | 13 | | Stark County in 2001; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, On March 22, 2002, Deputy Sheriff Adam Streicher | 15 | | was shot and killed while attempting to serve a failure to pay | 16 | | warrant; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Adam Streicher graduated from | 18 | | Annawan High School in 1997; another fallen police officer, | 19 | | Michigan State Trooper, Chad Wolf, graduated from Annawan High | 20 | | School in 1995; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, On August 28, 2015, Michigan State Trooper Chad | 2 | | Wolf was killed while on patrol when his motorcycle was struck | 3 | | by a vehicle; therefore, be it
| 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | 5 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | 6 | | CONCURRING HEREIN, that we designate the Illinois Route 78 | 7 | | overpass over Interstate 80 as the Deputy Adam Streicher and | 8 | | Trooper Chad Wolf Memorial Overpass; and be it further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation | 10 | | is requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with | 11 | | State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs | 12 | | giving notice of the name of the Deputy Adam Streicher and | 13 | | Trooper Chad Wolf Memorial Overpass; and be it further | 14 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 15 | | delivered to the Secretary of the Illinois Department of | 16 | | Transportation and the families of Deputy Sheriff Adam | 17 | | Streicher and Trooper Chad Wolf.
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