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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Cook-Illinois Corporation is an Illinois company,
3 based in Oak Forest, and is the largest family owned and
4 operated school bus contractor in the United States; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Cook-Illinois Corporation ranks fifth nationally
6 in overall size and operates a fleet of more than 1,700 school
7 buses throughout the Chicagoland area; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Cook-Illinois is a leader in green transportation
9 and was recently named a "Clean Bus Leader" by the
10 Environmental and Energy Study Institute and the National Clean
11 Bus Network; in addition, Cook-Illinois Corporation was the
12 first school bus service provider in Illinois to switch its
13 entire fleet to bio-diesel fuel and has recently purchased the
14 first hybrid school bus in the Midwest; and
 
15     WHEREAS, Cook Illinois is a national leader in the safe and
16 efficient transportation of schoolchildren, including special
17 education transportation, and is an important part of Illinois
18 education services and the Illinois economy; therefore, be it
 
19     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
20 NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
21 congratulate the owners and employees of the Cook-Illinois

 

 

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1 Corporation on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the
2 corporation's first bus company on May 6 of this year; and be
3 it further
 
4     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
5 presented to Cook-Illinois Corporation as a symbol of our
6 respect.