Full Text of HR0252 99th General Assembly
HR0252 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The 3-day National Football League Player | 3 | | Selection Meeting, commonly known
as the "NFL Draft", is one of | 4 | | the most widely-viewed sports events on worldwide television | 5 | | that
does not involve an athletic contest; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The signing by the Chicago Bears of University of | 7 | | Illinois great, "Red" Grange, in
1925 was the first significant | 8 | | transition of a college football superstar to the National | 9 | | Football
League, setting the stage for the coming century of | 10 | | "America's game"; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The owner and founder of the Chicago Bears, George | 12 | | Halas, is a key figure in the history
of the National Football | 13 | | League, recognized as such through the George Halas Trophy, | 14 | | awarded
annually to the champion of the National Football | 15 | | Conference within the National
Football League; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Twenty-nine of the 500 firms listed in the Fortune | 17 | | 500 list are headquartered in the
greater Chicago area, | 18 | | including many firms that partner with the National Football | 19 | | League and
its 32 teams in a variety of ways; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, The 2015 Draft will be hosted at the Auditorium | 21 | | Theater of the Roosevelt
University in Chicago, the first time |
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| 1 | | the draft has returned to Chicago since it was held in the
| 2 | | Sheraton Chicago Hotel in 1964; and
| 3 | | WHEREAS, The Chicago area
will continue to be a superb | 4 | | location and headquarters for the annual NFL Draft; therefore, | 5 | | be it
| 6 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 7 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 8 | | invite the National Football
League to continue to hold the | 9 | | National Football League Player Selection Meeting in the | 10 | | Chicago area as a
gesture to the heritage of the NFL and a | 11 | | gesture toward the future; and be it further
| 12 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 13 | | delivered to Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the
National | 14 | | Football League, George Mccaskey, Chairman of the Chicago | 15 | | Bears, and the 31 other
teams of the National Football League.
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