Full Text of HR1132 94th General Assembly
HR1132 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The City of Pana will celebrate its | 3 |
| sesquicentennial with special events scheduled throughout | 4 |
| 2006; Pana was incorporated in 1856; and
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| WHEREAS, For 150 years, Proud Pana, the city that moved | 6 |
| from the prairie to the crossroads of four railroads, has been | 7 |
| in the center of Illinois where the Union Pacific Railroad and | 8 |
| Illinois Routes 29 and 16 meet U.S. 51; during its history, | 9 |
| Pana became famous for coal, roses, corn, basketball, and | 10 |
| tremendous civic pride; and
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| WHEREAS, The City of Pana, population 5,614, is located in | 12 |
| the southeast corner of Christian County; in January of 1855, a | 13 |
| surveyor for the Illinois Central Railroad recorded a plat in | 14 |
| Stone Coal Precinct, Coal Creek Township, for their rail bed | 15 |
| and marked Pana on his survey at a point where the Illinois | 16 |
| Central rail intersected the rail of the Indianapolis & St. | 17 |
| Louis Railroad, later the New York Central Railroad; and
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| WHEREAS, On September 2, 1856, Coal Creek Township was | 19 |
| renamed Pana Township, possibly as a credit to the Pawnee/Pana | 20 |
| Indians who hunted the prairie in the area; and
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| WHEREAS, Late in 1856, a charter was submitted to the | 22 |
| Illinois legislature to create the City of Pana, population | 23 |
| 850, with 68 houses and one Presbyterian Church; and
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| WHEREAS, Names of notoriety of Pana's first century | 25 |
| residents include Civil War Captain and Mrs. John W. (Little) | 26 |
| Kitchell, sculptor Leonard Crunell, All-American sportsman | 27 |
| A.J. "Butch" Nowack, journalist and author James Vincent | 28 |
| Sheean, artist John Zwinak, violinist Florian Zabach, and many | 29 |
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| WHEREAS, The Pana community shares central Illinois with | 2 |
| great neighbors in Assumption, Oconee, Rosamond, and Tower | 3 |
| Hill; and
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| WHEREAS, Today Pana is home to Anderson Prairie, | 5 |
| Carnegie-Schuyler Library, the Christian County Housing | 6 |
| Authority, Coal Creek Pioneer Village, Historic Kitchell Park, | 7 |
| Lake Pana, the Lincoln Prairie Bike and Hike Trail, over a | 8 |
| dozen murals, Oak Terrace Resort, the Old Railroad Switch | 9 |
| Tower, Pana Community Hospital, Pana Heritage Day, Pana | 10 |
| Industrial Park, the Pana Labor Day Parade, the Pana Panthers, | 11 |
| Pana School Unit 8, nearby Rosamond Grove Cemetery, - 18 foot | 12 |
| Lincoln Statue - Mary Lincoln Cannon, Roseland Theater, Tanner | 13 |
| Sports Park, the Tri-County Fair, 20 Churches, 37 | 14 |
| clubs/organizations, and a multitude of great businesses that | 15 |
| serve the community; Pana is also known as the western gateway | 16 |
| to Lake Shelbyville, and Pana has strong ties to Shelbyville, | 17 |
| Nokomis, Taylorville, Herrick, Springfield, and Decatur, as | 18 |
| well as Ramsey and Vandalia; and
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| WHEREAS, Several activities during the year long | 20 |
| sesquicentennial celebration are being planned, many being | 21 |
| planned to take place at the well-known Kitchell Park in the | 22 |
| historic Chatuaqua Pavilion; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 24 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 25 |
| that we congratulate the City of Pana on the occasion of its | 26 |
| sesquicentennial celebration; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 28 |
| presented to the City of Pana as an expression of our esteem.
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