Full Text of HR0305 96th General Assembly
HR0305 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Mark W. Schwiebert has provided to the citizens of | 3 |
| the City of Rock Island decades of public service, capping off | 4 |
| his career as mayor of the City of Rock Island; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert graduated from Rock Island Senior | 6 |
| High School in 1968; he participated in the semester studies | 7 |
| program in political science at American University in 1970; | 8 |
| received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Augustana | 9 |
| College in 1972, where he also received an honorary doctorate | 10 |
| of humane letters in 2003; and received a juris doctorate | 11 |
| degree from Drake University in 1975 and a masters of arts in | 12 |
| history in 1976; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert has had a long and distinguished | 14 |
| career of public service, beginning as a legislative intern | 15 |
| with United States Senator George McGovern in Washington, D.C.; | 16 |
| he served as president of the Representative Assembly at | 17 |
| Augustana College; mayor pro-tem of the City of Rock Island | 18 |
| from 1985 to 1989; a member of the Rock Island City Council | 19 |
| from 1981 to 1989; and mayor of the City of Rock Island from | 20 |
| 1989 to 2009; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert is the founder and chairman of the | 22 |
| Rock Island Advanced Technology and Sustainability Consortium; |
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| serves as chairman of the Bi-State Regional Planning | 2 |
| Commission; serves as vice-chairman of the Quad Cities | 3 |
| Development Group and as chair of the group's Rock Island | 4 |
| Arsenal Task Force; and serves as a member of the Quad City | 5 |
| Arts Board of Directors, the Rock Island Economic Growth | 6 |
| Corporation, the Rock Island Liquor Commission, and as a | 7 |
| trustee of the Rausch Foundation I; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert has been an active member of a | 9 |
| number of local civic organizations, including the Rock Island | 10 |
| Noon Kiwanis, Rock Island Art Guild, and Contemporary Club of | 11 |
| the Quad Cities; and
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| WHEREAS, In his professional life, Mr. Schwiebert has | 13 |
| served as a law clerk, a law lecturer at Marycrest College, is | 14 |
| a principal in the law firm of Schwiebert & Schwiebert, and | 15 |
| serves on the standing committee on Local Education, Admission, | 16 |
| and Competence for the Illinois State Bar Association; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert is a member of the American, | 18 |
| Illinois, Iowa, and Rock Island County Bar Associations; the | 19 |
| Quad City Estate Planning Council; the National Council on | 20 |
| Planned Giving; and the Association for American Justice; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert's work and achievements have | 22 |
| earned him numerous awards and honors, including the |
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| Commander's Award for Public Service from the United States | 2 |
| Army; the Modern Woodmen of America Community Service Award; | 3 |
| the Rock Island Rotary Excellence Award; Distinguished Service | 4 |
| Awards from the Illinois Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce and | 5 |
| the Rock Island Jaycees; Layperson of the Year Award, Division | 6 |
| 17, from Kiwanis International; the Spiritual Aims Award from | 7 |
| the Rock Island Noon Kiwanis; and the Am Jur Award for | 8 |
| Excellence in Business Associates from Drake University; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert was an Inaugural Fellow at the | 10 |
| Augustana Institute on Leadership and Public Service; a | 11 |
| participant at the National Security Seminar at the United | 12 |
| States Army War College; a Supreme Court Day Moot Court | 13 |
| Finalist at Drake University; a member of the Omicron Delta | 14 |
| Kappa Men's Leadership Fraternity at Augustana College; and an | 15 |
| Eagle Scout; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert is the principal sponsor of the | 17 |
| Rock Island Economic Growth Corporation, the City of Rock | 18 |
| Island Commercial-Industrial Revolving Loan Fund, and the City | 19 |
| of Rock Island Historic Preservation Ordinance; he played a | 20 |
| leadership role in downtown Rock Island development efforts and | 21 |
| Illinois Quad Cities Intergovernmental Cooperation | 22 |
| Initiatives; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert has been able to have the fruits of |
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| one of his hobbies, watercolor and oil painting, placed on | 2 |
| display at the Solo Exhibit of Watercolors at Studio 15 in | 3 |
| Davenport, Iowa in 1992, at the Rock Island Public Library in | 4 |
| 1993, and at a joint exhibit in 2001; he authored and | 5 |
| co-produced text for a CD, "14 Stations, Revisited"; and | 6 |
| participated in an archaeological dig in Jerusalem in 1995 and | 7 |
| the Sea of Galilee in 2003; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Schwiebert enjoys traveling, running, | 9 |
| weightlifting, watercolor and oil painting, writing, reading, | 10 |
| and archeology, and he looks forward to spending more time with | 11 |
| his wife, Deborah, following his retirement as mayor; | 12 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 15 |
| congratulate Mayor Mark Schwiebert on his years of public | 16 |
| service to the City of Rock Island and for his commitment to | 17 |
| the betterment of the Rock Island community; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 |
| presented to Mayor Schwiebert as a symbol of our respect.
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