Full Text of HR0111 94th General Assembly
HR0111 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois congratulate the Polish National Alliance | 4 |
| (PNA) on its 125th anniversary; this occasion offers | 5 |
| opportunities to appreciate the organization's six-plus | 6 |
| generations of dedication and achievement as a fraternal | 7 |
| benefit society and premier community "mover and shaker"; and
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| WHEREAS, The observance will commence officially on | 9 |
| February 15, 2005 with a civic event in Philadelphia and a | 10 |
| Special Mass in Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, For 125 years, the leadership and the members of | 12 |
| the PNA have exercised potent influence in patriotic, civic, | 13 |
| educational, social, cultural, and charitable causes that | 14 |
| elevate the esteem of Polish heritage; and
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| WHEREAS, The PNA was formed in 1880 in Philadelphia and | 16 |
| Chicago by patriots whose aim was to unite the members of the | 17 |
| Polish immigrant community in America behind the twin causes of | 18 |
| Poland's independence and their own advancement into the | 19 |
| mainstream of American society; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1881, the PNA set up its own newspaper, Zgoda, | 21 |
| to promote its objectives to the larger community; in 1885, it | 22 |
| established an insurance program for the material benefit of | 23 |
| all who wished to join the Alliance, and from the early 1890s | 24 |
| onward, it created a variety of programs aimed at enlightening | 25 |
| the members of the Polish population in the United States about | 26 |
| their heritage and their citizen rights and obligations as | 27 |
| Americans; to further advance these aims, the PNA established | 28 |
| its own daily newspaper in Chicago, Dziennik Zwiazkowy, known | 29 |
| today as The Polish Daily News; and
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| WHEREAS, Today, the PNA is proud of its record of serving |
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| the insurance needs of the more than two million men, women, | 2 |
| and children who have been in its ranks since 1880; it is proud | 3 |
| of its work on behalf of all Americans, Polish and non-Polish | 4 |
| alike, in promoting citizenship participation in the life of | 5 |
| the United States; it is proud to promote the enlightenment of | 6 |
| its members and their fellow Americans about the heritage of | 7 |
| Poland through Zgoda, The Polish Daily News, its Chicago radio | 8 |
| station, WPNA, its two banks, its website, its involvement in | 9 |
| the Polish American Congress, the National Fraternal Congress, | 10 |
| and other organizations, and the benevolent and charitable | 11 |
| activities of its members throughout the country; therefore, be | 12 |
| it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 |
| we congratulate the Polish National Alliance on the occasion of | 16 |
| its 125th anniversary celebration; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to the Polish National Alliance as an expression of | 19 |
| our esteem.
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