Full Text of HR1157 94th General Assembly
HR1157 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The village of Ashkum will celebrate its | 3 |
| sesquicentennial the weekend of August 25, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1856, as railway stations were established | 5 |
| along the main line of the Illinois Central railroad, people | 6 |
| built homes and established businesses that eventually became a | 7 |
| community; one of these communities was Ashkum, named after a | 8 |
| Potawatomi Indian chief who migrated to the west from Indiana | 9 |
| in 1838; railroad records show that by 1856 when the town was | 10 |
| formally organized, six houses, two stores, and a hotel had | 11 |
| been established, and 58 new farms were settled in the | 12 |
| vicinity; and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Central railroad's role in the | 14 |
| formation of the town is confirmed by the record of shipments | 15 |
| from Ashkum in 1857, when 331 tons of freight such as corn, | 16 |
| wheat, oats, cattle, and hogs originated at the station; in the | 17 |
| same year, the Illinois Central delivered 1,239 tons of freight | 18 |
| to Ashkum consisting of general merchandise, lumber, shingles, | 19 |
| stone, four, salt, molasses, and ten barrels of whiskey; and
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| WHEREAS, In 2006, there are still railroad tracks running | 21 |
| through the community with thousands of bushels of grain | 22 |
| shipped each year from neighboring farms; Interstate 57, | 23 |
| Chicago's highway link to the south, borders the west side of | 24 |
| the town; the Illinois State Police District 21 office is | 25 |
| located in Ashkum; the town has 38 small businesses as well as | 26 |
| a post office, three churches, and a school; Ashkum is probably | 27 |
| most widely known in the State for its Coliseum, built in 1919, | 28 |
| which has housed many a traveler caught in a snowstorm when | 29 |
| I-57 was temporarily closed; and
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| WHEREAS, Ashkum is the home of 750 residents with an | 31 |
| abundance of quiet streets and beautiful trees; therefore, be |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 3 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 4 |
| we congratulate the village of Ashkum on the occasion of its | 5 |
| sesquicentennial; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 |
| presented to the village of Ashkum as an expression of our | 8 |
| esteem and with best wishes for the community's future | 9 |
| prosperity.
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