Full Text of HR0320 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the | 4 | | administration, teachers, and students of James Harvey Bowen | 5 | | High School in Chicago on the occasion of the school's 100th | 6 | | anniversary; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The James Harvey Bowen High School now enters its | 8 | | second century of providing a facility for the young citizens | 9 | | of South Chicago to obtain a quality education; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Named after a young entrepreneur, founder of the | 11 | | Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock Company, and chairman of the | 12 | | Republican State Central Committee at the time of President | 13 | | Abraham Lincoln's assassination, James Harvey Bowen High | 14 | | School's current building was built in 1910 to replace the old | 15 | | structure on 93rd and Houston Avenue that was built as an | 16 | | elementary school in 1876; the building opened with 14 students | 17 | | enrolled in a one-room class; the structure was eventually | 18 | | enlarged to serve children of all elementary grade levels and | 19 | | four rooms were allocated for high school work; the building | 20 | | then served as a branch until 1960 and was subsequently razed; | 21 | | and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, Designed by famed school architect Dwight |
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| 1 | | Perkins, a Prairie School contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, | 2 | | Bowen High School's current building was built for an | 3 | | enrollment of 1,400; by the mid-1930s, however, its student | 4 | | body had burgeoned to 4,600 due to the migration of Polish, | 5 | | Slavic, and other immigrants into South Chicago; in 1970, a new | 6 | | gymnasium, 30 new classrooms, four large study halls, and a | 7 | | two-story library were erected; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, As the population of South Chicago grew, Bowen | 9 | | High School came to be considered one of the city's finest high | 10 | | schools; throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Bowen tradition of | 11 | | academic excellence continued; by 1965, 73% of the senior class | 12 | | went on to college; as a cultural and education institution | 13 | | serving today's youth under the auspices of the Chicago High | 14 | | School Redesign Initiative, Bowen was divided into four "small | 15 | | schools" in 2002: the Chicago Discovery Academy, BEST or the | 16 | | Bowen Environmental Studies Team, the Global Visions Academy, | 17 | | and the New Millennium School of Health; these four | 18 | | "schools-within-a-school" are funded by the Chicago Board of | 19 | | Education and receive additional support from the Bill and | 20 | | Melanie Gates Foundation; each small school has an enrollment | 21 | | of about 400 students, is staffed by certified teachers, and | 22 | | has its own principal; and
| 23 | | WHEREAS, Bowen High School graduates have influenced the | 24 | | arts, industry, law, and government; the school has been the |
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| 1 | | alma mater of many talented, successful, and famous people from | 2 | | vastly diverse fields of endeavor, such as renowned drummer | 3 | | Gene Krupa, Hollywood director Andrew Davis, and late radio | 4 | | personality Ed Schwartz; this historic educational institution | 5 | | continues to meet the educational needs of future generations | 6 | | who will call the South Chicago neighborhood their home; | 7 | | therefore, be it
| 8 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 9 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 10 | | we congratulate the administration, teachers, and students of | 11 | | James Harvey Bowen High School in Chicago on the occasion of | 12 | | the school's 100th anniversary; and be it further
| 13 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 | | prepared and presented to James Harvey Bowen High School as a | 15 | | symbol of our respect and esteem.
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