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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Renato "Ron" Turano of Burr Ridge was recently
3 elected to serve in the Italian Parliament as the first senator
4 to represent a new district of expatriate countrymen; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Mr. Turano, the president of a Berwyn-based
6 bakery, holds dual citizenship in the United States and Italy;
7 he moved to Chicago from southern Italy as a teenager; he
8 helped his family build its business from a 600-square-foot
9 bakery in Portage Park into an enterprise with 650 employees
10 and three factories; and
 
11     WHEREAS, He will represent about 200,000 Italian citizens
12 in the U.S. and 150,000 in Canada, Mexico, Central America, and
13 the Caribbean; and
 
14     WHEREAS, He is affiliated with the L'Unione party and will
15 become one of 315 members of the Senato della Repubblica;
16 giving expatriate Italians the right to vote was first promoted
17 in 2001; he was the top vote-getter out of more than a dozen
18 candidates for the North American seat, earning 11,634 votes;
19 only citizens who have Italian or dual citizenship were able to
20 vote; and
 
21     WHEREAS, Mr. Turano will serve a five-year term beginning
22 at the end of the month; therefore, be it
 
23     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
24 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
25 we congratulate Mr. Renato "Ron" Turano on his election to the
26 Italian Parliament; and be it further
 
27     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
28 presented to Mr. Turano as an expression of our esteem.