Full Text of HR0487 94th General Assembly
HR0487 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Charles Richards of Palos Heights, publisher of | 3 |
| The Regional News and The Reporter, is retiring after a long | 4 |
| and distinguished career; and
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| WHEREAS, The Regional News was founded in 1941 by Carl | 6 |
| Richards, Charles' father, as the Palos Regional; Charles | 7 |
| Richards began working at the newspaper in high school and, in | 8 |
| 1965, after attending journalism school at the University of | 9 |
| Missouri in Columbia and another year in graduate school taking | 10 |
| business courses, he returned to work for the Regional News; | 11 |
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| WHEREAS, He came up through the ranks in the shop and later | 13 |
| as a reporter, photographer, editor, ad manager, and | 14 |
| circulation manager; in 1967, he led the conversion from | 15 |
| letterpress to offset; and
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| WHEREAS, Charles Richards bought the Regional from his | 17 |
| father in 1970; in 1983, the paper's name was changed to The | 18 |
| Regional News because of the addition of news and advertising | 19 |
| matter from Orland Park; today, The Regional News has | 20 |
| approximately 18,000 readers, an all-time high; it has won 600 | 21 |
| awards for excellence, including being named Best Small Weekly | 22 |
| in Illinois five times by the Illinois Press Association; and
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| WHEREAS, The Reporter Newspaper was founded in 1960 to | 24 |
| serve the Worth, Chicago Ridge, Palos Hills, and Hickory Hills | 25 |
| area; in 1983, it expanded into Oak Lawn and Evergreen Park; in | 26 |
| 1986, Charles Richards purchased The Reporter and most of the | 27 |
| existing staff was retained, as was the office in Chicago | 28 |
| Ridge; a year later, the newspaper office was moved to Palos | 29 |
| Heights; The Reporter currently publishes one edition for Palos | 30 |
| Hills and Hickory Hills, another for Worth and Chicago Ridge, | 31 |
| and a third for Oak Lawn and Evergreen Park; The Reporter's |
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| paid circulation is now over 18,000 per issue; and
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| WHEREAS, During his career as publisher, Charles Richards | 3 |
| followed in his father's footsteps by serving two terms as the | 4 |
| President of the Palos Chamber of Commerce; he
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| President of the Cook County Suburban Publishers Association | 6 |
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been serving for many years as treasurer of that group; | 7 |
| he also served a term on the Board of The Calumet Ben Franklin | 8 |
| Club; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 11 |
| we commend Charles Richards on his fulfilling journalism career | 12 |
| and community service and wish him all the best in his | 13 |
| retirement and future endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to Charles Richards as an expression of our esteem.
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