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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, County fairs play an important role in the rich |
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| agricultural history of the State of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, As early as 1871, the Illinois legislature |
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| realized that funding county fairs helped promote the livestock |
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| industry of our State; that year, every county fair in the |
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| State of Illinois received $100 to help finance their premiums; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, Today, some 3.3 million fairgoers are entertained |
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| and educated yearly during the county fair season; assistance |
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| is provided by the Department of Agriculture, from funds |
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| allocated by the General Assembly, to county fairs, 4-H fairs, |
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| vocational agriculture sectional fairs, and fair and |
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| exposition participants; and
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| WHEREAS, The Bureau of County Fairs functions as a |
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| regulatory arm of the Department of Agriculture; within this |
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| function, constant auditing of all reports from the fairs is |
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| performed, along with regulating and enforcing of all rules and |
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| regulations of the Department, in compliance with statutes of |
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| the State; and
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| WHEREAS, In FY2006, there were 105 agricultural and |
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| industrial fairs held in Illinois, with an estimated attendance |
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| of 3,320,948 and 375,199 entries; and
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| WHEREAS, County fairs are the bonding of youth and elderly, |
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| the rural and the urban dwellers, the business man and their |
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| customers; they are a symbol of agriculture that cannot be |
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| outsourced to another country; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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