Full Text of HR0907 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION | 2 | | WHEREAS, From 1877 to 2002, the State of Illinois operated | 3 | | a large residential facility for developmentally disabled | 4 | | children and adults in the City of Lincoln, known first as The | 5 | | Illinois Asylum for Feeble Minded Children and later renamed | 6 | | the Lincoln State School and Colony, the Lincoln State School, | 7 | | and finally, the Lincoln Developmental Center; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, The Lincoln Developmental Center was located on a | 9 | | sprawling campus, resembling a miniature city, and housed | 10 | | thousands of residents and contained its own power plant, | 11 | | kitchen, bakery, sewing rooms, laundry facility, hospital, | 12 | | nursing school, fire department, jail, and farm, as well as | 13 | | other industrial shops; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, The Lincoln Developmental Center also contained a | 15 | | cemetery that housed the remains of deceased patients who had | 16 | | lived at the facility when their families could not be located | 17 | | or were indigent; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, The State opened the Logan Correctional Center, a | 19 | | women's prison, adjacent to the Lincoln Developmental Center | 20 | | in 1978 and opened the Lincoln Correctional Center, a men's | 21 | | prison, on the same grounds in 1984; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, After the closure of the Lincoln Developmental | 2 | | Center in 2002, the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) | 3 | | became responsible for managing the Lincoln Developmental | 4 | | Center cemetery; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, With the erection of correctional facilities near | 6 | | the cemetery and management of the cemetery becoming IDOC's | 7 | | responsibility, it became difficult for family members, | 8 | | relatives, and friends of those interred at the cemetery to | 9 | | visit their loved ones, care for their gravesites, and pay | 10 | | their respects; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, No clear process exists for members of the public | 12 | | to visit their deceased loved ones interred at the Lincoln | 13 | | Developmental Center cemetery, including no public guidelines | 14 | | for families to follow and no public information on who is | 15 | | responsible for managing such visits at IDOC for families to | 16 | | contact; therefore, be it | 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 18 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 19 | | we urge the Illinois Department of Corrections to develop a | 20 | | standard policy/set of guidelines that are public for those | 21 | | who wish to visit gravesites of loved ones including, but not | 22 | | limited to, familial relations and researchers; and be it | 23 | | further |
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That we urge the Illinois Department of | 2 | | Corrections to consider ease of access to the public for this | 3 | | cemetery during renovations or rebuilding of IDOC facilities | 4 | | at this site; and be it further | 5 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 | | delivered to the Director of the Illinois Department of | 7 | | Corrections. |
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