Full Text of HR0465 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Larry Morrissey for his | 4 | | years of service as mayor of the City of Rockford, the | 5 | | third-largest city in Illinois; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey is the 40th mayor to lead Rockford | 7 | | since its founding on the banks of the Rock River in northern | 8 | | Illinois in 1852; he is one of only four mayors in Rockford's | 9 | | history to serve 10 years or more; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey became the city's youngest and | 11 | | only independent mayor when he was first elected in 2005; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey provided some of the most | 13 | | decisive, visionary, and innovative leadership during some of | 14 | | the city's and the nation's most challenging times; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey continuously aimed to provide | 16 | | excellence everywhere for everyone within Rockford; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey introduced the data-driven | 18 | | management system known as RockStat to Rockford and has made | 19 | | data-driven, decision-making a hallmark of his administration; | 20 | | and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey has served as a founding policy | 2 | | board member of the K-12 public education collective impact | 3 | | organization known as Alignment Rockford; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey founded the Rockford Maker | 5 | | Network in 2013 to support and coordinate the community's | 6 | | expanding maker education and entrepreneur movement; he was | 7 | | invited to the first White House Maker Faire in June of 2014 | 8 | | and accepted an International Place Marketing Award in Aix en | 9 | | Provence, France
in October of that same year; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey began his professional career | 11 | | practicing law in Chicago before moving back to his hometown of | 12 | | Rockford in 1997; he continued to practice law until his | 13 | | election in April of 2005; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey graduated from the University of | 15 | | Notre Dame in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude; he | 16 | | earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude in 1995 from the University | 17 | | of Illinois College of Law; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Mayor Morrissey lives on Rockford's west side in | 19 | | the historic Signal Hill neighborhood with his wife, Stacy, and | 20 | | his four children, Seanna, Sophia, Dillon, and Alden James; | 21 | | therefore, be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 2 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 3 | | congratulate and thank Mayor Larry Morrissey for his dedication | 4 | | to the people of Rockford, and we wish him the best in all his | 5 | | future endeavors; and be it further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
| 7 | | presented to Mayor Morrissey as an expression of our esteem and
| 8 | | respect.
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