Full Text of HR1248 94th General Assembly
HR1248 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, On Wednesday, June 7, 2006, Silver Cross Hospital | 3 |
| in Joliet will celebrate the opening of its Evon D. and Jack H. | 4 |
| Keck Emergency Care Pavilion; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. and Mrs. Keck generously pledged a gift of | 6 |
| $1,000,000 toward the funding of the emergency department's | 7 |
| expansion; and
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| WHEREAS, The new emergency department facility will have | 9 |
| the capacity to care for 60,000 patients annually; currently, | 10 |
| the hospital sees more than 46,000 patients a year in a space | 11 |
| originally built over 15 years ago for 25,000; with 30,000 | 12 |
| square feet, the new facility will have 26 treatment and six | 13 |
| observation beds, a dedicated CT scanner, a second X-ray room, | 14 |
| and a second family consulting room; there will be four trauma | 15 |
| rooms, and the rooms for sexual assault patients have been | 16 |
| improved by adding in-room showering and toilet facilities for | 17 |
| use after an examination; and
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| WHEREAS, A separate waiting area is also being added for | 19 |
| children, with amenities like video games, flat screen HDTVs | 20 |
| with VCR/DVDs, and an aquarium that will catch the attention of | 21 |
| children and make the wait a little bit easier for parents; | 22 |
| another area will have stations where people can sit with their | 23 |
| laptop computers and have free wireless access to the Internet; | 24 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Keck is a former partner of William Keck and | 26 |
| Sons Electric Company and original founder of the Joliet | 27 |
| Equipment Corporation, which is today, one of the largest motor | 28 |
| repair and sales companies in the Midwest; he was a successful | 29 |
| businessman, selling the largest motors ever built to Pacific | 30 |
| Steel; when most people his age were thinking about enjoying | 31 |
| retirement, at age 65 Mr. Keck bought the Wisconsin Steel Mill, |
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| dismantled it in the middle of winter, and moved it to Joliet | 2 |
| to be cleaned and sold; and
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| WHEREAS, In addition to their business accomplishments, | 4 |
| the Kecks raised two children, Ricky and Cynthia; today, they | 5 |
| enjoy time spent with granddaughter Daphne Engle and her | 6 |
| husband Kelly Meek as well as grandson Sean Keck, his wife | 7 |
| Donna, and great-grandchildren Cynthia and Isabelle; they have | 8 |
| also supported the Mayo Clinic, Children's Memorial Hospital, | 9 |
| and United Cerebral Palsy; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 11 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 12 |
| we recognize Evon D. and Jack H. Keck on the occasion of the | 13 |
| opening of the Evon D. and Jack H. Keck Emergency Care Pavilion | 14 |
| at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, and we thank them for their | 15 |
| generosity to the emergency department expansion project; and | 16 |
| be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to Mr. and Mrs. Keck as an expression of our esteem.
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