Full Text of HR0601 95th General Assembly
HR0601 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois General Assembly are | 3 |
| pleased to congratulate the Faulstich family of Danville as | 4 |
| they celebrate the 75th anniversary of Faulstich Printing; and
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| WHEREAS, Fred Faulstich is co-owner of Faulstich Printing | 6 |
| Company, and recalls there were once many print shops in | 7 |
| Danville and now Faulstich Printing, at 2001 E. Voorhees | 8 |
| Street, is one of a few commercial print shops left, as well as | 9 |
| the oldest; and
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| WHEREAS, Fred Faulstich, his brother, Bill, and their | 11 |
| cousin, Con Bateman, continue to run the print shop started by | 12 |
| their dad and Bateman's uncle, Paul, in 1932; the shop employs | 13 |
| 11 full-time workers; for the first 15 years after the shop | 14 |
| opened, the elder Faulstich worked in tandem with Ed Tate, and | 15 |
| the business was called Tate-Faulstich Printing in the 1930s | 16 |
| and 1940s; and
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| WHEREAS, Mike Bateman, the Faulstich brothers' uncle, was a | 18 |
| partner in the family business from 1957 until his death in | 19 |
| 2004; Con, the late Mike Bateman's son, continues to work at | 20 |
| the print shop; Bill Faulstich started working at the print | 21 |
| shop in 1959, with Fred joining him in 1960; Peggy Niccum, the | 22 |
| office manager, has been a fixture at the shop for 42 years; |
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| WHEREAS, An "old-fashioned" 1965 Heidelberg press still is | 3 |
| used for jobs that entail die-cutting, but an even older | 4 |
| hand-fed press has been donated to Kennekuk County Preserve's | 5 |
| historic Bunker Hill area; the company uses soy ink, and most | 6 |
| of the paper is recycled; the majority of the jobs tackled | 7 |
| nowadays include full-color printing, soft and hardbound | 8 |
| books, newsletters, trade magazines, and advertising | 9 |
| literature.
The print shop has equipment that can "saddle | 10 |
| stitch" booklets and "perfect bind" paperback books; their | 11 |
| customers include local school districts and industries, as | 12 |
| well as customers from Champaign-Urbana, the East Coast, and | 13 |
| the Southwest; and
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| WHEREAS, the staff of Faulstich Printing is to be commended | 15 |
| for this anniversary occasion; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 17 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 18 |
| congratulate the staff of Faulstich Printing on the 75th | 19 |
| anniversary of the business; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 21 |
| presented to Fred and Bill Faulstich and Con Bateman as a | 22 |
| symbol of our respect.
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