Full Text of HR0171 096th General Assembly
HR0171 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Village of Woodridge is celebrating its 50th | 3 |
| anniversary and the Woodridge Park District's 40th anniversary | 4 |
| this year; the Village of Woodridge was incorporated on August | 5 |
| 24, 1959; in 1959, Woodridge's population was 459 people and | 6 |
| now, fifty years later, the population has grown to over 36,000 | 7 |
| residents; and
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| WHEREAS, Leon Werch was the Village of Woodridge's first | 9 |
| Mayor; there have been nine mayors in the history of the | 10 |
| village, including the current Mayor, William F. Murphy; an all | 11 |
| volunteer police department was established in 1960 along with | 12 |
| an all volunteer fire company; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1959 Surety Builders rented a small house to | 14 |
| the village for the sum of $1 a year; over the years the | 15 |
| facility housed the police department, the village clerk's | 16 |
| office, a courtroom, the building department, and the public | 17 |
| library; and
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| WHEREAS, Woodridge was recently recognized by Money | 19 |
| Magazine as one of the Top 100 Places to Live in the Nation; | 20 |
| Woodridge was also highlighted on an episode of the "World's | 21 |
| Greatest" television show as one of the World's Greatest | 22 |
| Communities; commercial growth in the Woodridge community has |
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| resulted in over 10 million square feet of commercial and | 2 |
| industrial space that houses approximately 160 businesses and | 3 |
| employs over 6,500 people; and
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| WHEREAS, ProLogis Park Internationale Centre in Woodridge | 5 |
| is the third largest industrial park in the Chicagoland area; | 6 |
| the Woodridge Community Pantry provides food and supportive | 7 |
| programming for families and individuals in need in Woodridge | 8 |
| and surrounding communities; the pantry serves more than 5,200 | 9 |
| families per year, including over 9,700 children and 1,200 | 10 |
| senior citizens; and
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| WHEREAS, Dancing with the Community Resource Center Kids, a | 12 |
| Woodridge youth program, was the 2007 recipient of the DuPage | 13 |
| Mayors and Managers Conference Municipal Innovation Award; | 14 |
| Woodridge is the only three-time winner of this prestigious | 15 |
| award; and the Village Greens of Woodridge, a village-owned | 16 |
| golf course, was a recipient of the Illinois Golf Course Owner | 17 |
| Association Course of the year; and
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| WHEREAS, A quilt celebrating the community and park | 19 |
| district anniversaries and Woodridge's diversity was unveiled | 20 |
| on January 15, 2009; in addition to the quilt, the Diversity | 21 |
| Committee is holding a 50 for 50 Food Drive to help raise 50 | 22 |
| tons of food for the Woodridge Community Pantry; and
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| WHEREAS, Woodridge has six elementary schools and one | 2 |
| junior high school within its borders; School District 68 | 3 |
| services approximately 2,854 students in pre-kindergarten | 4 |
| through eighth grade; the District employs 203 full-time | 5 |
| teachers, and has an overall student/teacher ratio of 14:1; all | 6 |
| of Woodridge's schools have been accredited by the North | 7 |
| Central Association's Commission on Accreditation and School | 8 |
| Improvement (NCA CASI); and | 9 |
| WHEREAS, The Woodridge Bikeways System provides nearly 20 | 10 |
| miles of recreation and transportation opportunities to access | 11 |
| businesses, schools, parks, forest preserves, municipal | 12 |
| services, shopping areas, and regional bikeways; Woodridge is | 13 |
| surrounded by 8 forest preserves; together, they add nearly | 14 |
| 5,000 acres of open space to the Woodridge community; | 15 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 18 |
| congratulate the citizens of Woodridge on these two important | 19 |
| anniversary occasions and wish them the best for their | 20 |
| community's future; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 |
| presented to Mayor William F. Murphy as a symbol of our respect | 23 |
| and esteem.
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