Full Text of HR1193 94th General Assembly
HR1193 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Village of Maywood will celebrate the 125th | 3 |
| anniversary of its incorporation on October 22, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, A planned community from the outset, Maywood lies | 5 |
| on the west bank of the Des Plaines River, stretching from | 6 |
| Roosevelt Road on the south to just beyond Augusta Street on | 7 |
| the north; Maywood was originally part of a larger area known | 8 |
| as Noyesville, named after one of Proviso Township's early | 9 |
| settlers, who established the area's first post office in the | 10 |
| mid-1830s; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1869, a group of Vermont businessmen formed the | 12 |
| Maywood Company and purchased the Village's original plat, a | 13 |
| narrow, one-and-three-quarters-mile strip along the Des | 14 |
| Plaines River; Company President Colonel William T. Nichols | 15 |
| named the Village after his daughter May and immediately began | 16 |
| subdividing the land and creating improvements necessary to | 17 |
| "build up a neat, desirable suburb"; and
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| WHEREAS, Since its incorporation as a village in 1881, | 19 |
| Maywood's economic development has hinged on light industry, | 20 |
| starting in 1883, when the Norton Brothers purchased the old | 21 |
| road scraper and ditch digger plant in the Village, which they | 22 |
| established as an operating can manufacturing unit by 1885; in | 23 |
| 1901, the American Can Company purchased the plant from the | 24 |
| Norton Brothers; other industries were subsequently attracted | 25 |
| to the area, located primarily within the factory district | 26 |
| along the north side of the railroad tracks; and
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| WHEREAS, Maywood gained a major institution in 1918 when | 28 |
| the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Memorial Hospital was established | 29 |
| for the care of war veterans; Village businesses and their | 30 |
| workers were served by excellent transportation, including the | 31 |
| Chicago & North Western train (1870), electric street railways |
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| (1893), and Chicago's rapid transit system; during the 1920s, | 2 |
| Checkerboard Field (now Miller Meadow) provided air service; | 3 |
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| WHEREAS, After an economic downturn in the 1970s, somewhat | 5 |
| offset by the introduction of the Loyola University Medical | 6 |
| Center during the 1960s, Maywood began to rebound in the 1990s; | 7 |
| in an attempt to attract new industry and businesses, the | 8 |
| Village established a tax increment financing district on the | 9 |
| former site of American Can Company, which was leveled in 1997; | 10 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 |
| we recognize the 125th anniversary of the incorporation of the | 14 |
| Village of Maywood; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 |
| presented to the Village of Maywood as an expression of our | 17 |
| esteem and with best wishes for a prosperous future.
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