Full Text of HR0466 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to recognize the 50th anniversary of the | 4 | | construction of the Diageo plant in Plainfield; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, The original 150,000 square foot facility was | 6 | | built by the Distillers Company Ltd. on 33 acres, north of the
| 7 | | Village of Plainfield; the original facility employed 85 | 8 | | employees and had three production lines, two gin stills, and
| 9 | | one vodka processing column; the site was capable of producing | 10 | | up to 7,000 cases a day; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, For over 30 years, the facility remained a | 12 | | relatively small operation, primarily producing Gordon's Gin
| 13 | | and Gordon's Vodka; it barely survived the deadly 1990 | 14 | | Plainfield Tornado; the site's future dramatically changed
| 15 | | with the formation of Diageo in 1997 and the introduction of | 16 | | Smirnoff Vodka to the facility a year
later; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, On September 10, 2001, Plainfield celebrated the | 18 | | opening of its 90,000 square foot Smirnoff ICE facility,
| 19 | | increasing the site's annual production capability by 12 | 20 | | million cases; the following day, September 11, 2001, the men | 21 | | and women of Plainfield mourned with the rest of the country
| 22 | | and did their part to help relief efforts through the Diageo |
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| 1 | | Spirit of America Fund; when a major flood struck the area in | 2 | | 2013, Diageo decided to close down operations in order to work | 3 | | on sandbagging efforts and to provide food and water to the | 4 | | many
volunteers working to prevent further flooding; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Today, after several multi-million-dollar site | 6 | | expansions over the past 15 years, the Plainfield plant
is | 7 | | Diageo's premier North America manufacturing facility with 10 | 8 | | production lines generating
millions of cases annually and | 9 | | employing hundreds of citizens in the Will County area; the | 10 | | plant is also home to such great brands as Captain
Morgan, | 11 | | Crown Royal, and Bulleit; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, For the past 50 years, Diageo employees have been | 13 | | proud of what they do to help people
responsibly celebrate | 14 | | life, every day, everywhere; therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 16 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 | | recognize the 50th anniversary of the Diageo plant in | 18 | | Plainfield, and we wish it many more years of success; and be | 19 | | it further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to the employees of the Diageo plant in Plainfield as | 22 | | a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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