Full Text of SR0716 94th General Assembly
SR0716 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Senate of the State of Illinois | 3 |
| learned with regret of the death of Jay W. Stream, the founder | 4 |
| of the Village of Carol Stream, on Sunday, January 22, 2006; | 5 |
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| WHEREAS, He was born in Churdan, Iowa, on April 17, 1921, | 7 |
| to Adrian and Theo Stream; later, the family moved to Wheaton, | 8 |
| where they had a dairy herd and about 65 horses; after high | 9 |
| school, Mr. Stream went to the University of Southern | 10 |
| California on a football scholarship, but left school to enlist | 11 |
| in the United States Army Air Corps at the outbreak of World | 12 |
| War II; he was a bomber pilot, but for much of the war, he | 13 |
| ferried USO performers to military bases around the world; and
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| WHEREAS, Following World War II, Mr. Stream worked briefly | 15 |
| for John Hancock Insurance in Boston, Massachusetts, but missed | 16 |
| his midwest origins, and soon returned to Chicago; he was | 17 |
| working out of John Hancock's Chicago office and quickly rose | 18 |
| to leadership in the field of annuity programming; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1947, looking for something a bit more | 20 |
| tangible, he was instrumental in opening the city's first | 21 |
| ready-mix concrete plant and served as president of Royal | 22 |
| Ready-Mix Concrete Co.; he bought a gravel pit in Wisconsin and | 23 |
| was soon shipping 60 freight cars a day full of sand and gravel | 24 |
| to Chicago; from 1949 to 1964, he pioneered and led the Durable | 25 |
| Construction Co. to a position as one of Illinois' largest | 26 |
| residential and commercial building firms; during this period | 27 |
| he served as president of Midwest Land Corp., Wheaton Sewer and | 28 |
| Water Co., and Hydro-Structure Corp.; and
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| WHEREAS, It was in 1958 that Jay Stream had a vision that | 30 |
| now, 48 years later, represents visible proof of his clarity of | 31 |
| vision; after selecting an area of virgin farmland in Illinois, |
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| he carefully pulled together a planned community of residential | 2 |
| atmosphere that would be supported by well-selected | 3 |
| manufacturing companies; and | 4 |
| WHEREAS, The Village of Carol Stream was named in honor of | 5 |
| Mr. Stream's daughter; under his direction, the industrial area | 6 |
| grew to include many of the nation's industrial leaders, such | 7 |
| as Fiat, Morton Salt, Container Corporation of America, Allis | 8 |
| Chalmers, Meyer Cord Decalcomania Company, Easterling | 9 |
| Silverware, and many more; today, Carol Stream has more than | 10 |
| 40,000 residents; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1962, he founded the Hawthorne Bank of Wheaton | 12 |
| and served as its bank president and chairman of the board; in | 13 |
| 1967, Mr. Stream retired from the bank to pursue a new post as | 14 |
| president of the International Arabian Horse Association; his | 15 |
| enthusiastic dedication to the Arabian horse resulted not only | 16 |
| in his founding Greengate Farms, one of the largest and most | 17 |
| successful Arabian Horse breeding farms in the world, but also | 18 |
| his participation in the creation of the World Arabian Horse | 19 |
| Organization; serving as chairman of the Steering Committee, he | 20 |
| helped found and wrote the constitution for the World Arabian | 21 |
| Horse Association, an organization representing more than 50 | 22 |
| countries; he was elected first president of the organization | 23 |
| and served in that capacity for 30 years, a position that | 24 |
| placed him in close contact with many governments, including | 25 |
| Russia and several nations of the Eastern bloc; he dealt | 26 |
| extensively with countries of the Mid-East (including Jordan, | 27 |
| Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait; therefore, | 28 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL | 30 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 31 |
| Jay Stream, a man who was truly a visionary, and we extend our | 32 |
| sincere condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew | 33 |
| and loved him; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 |
| presented to his family and to the Village of Carol Stream as | 3 |
| an expression of our deepest sympathy.
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