Full Text of HJR0052 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In early 1869, the Village of Glencoe was a small | 3 | | community of less than 30 homes, a few local
stores, a country | 4 | | school, a church, and a railway station connected by dirt | 5 | | roads; it was first settled by
Anson Taylor and several German | 6 | | and English immigrant families only 30 years earlier; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Village founder Dr. Alexander Hammond and his | 8 | | investors from the Glencoe
Company developed and planned the | 9 | | community before the first plan commission in the early
1920s; | 10 | | and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Glencoe was granted a special charter by the | 12 | | General Assembly
on March 29, 1869; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Glencoe is under the leadership of Village | 14 | | President Lawrence Levin
and Village Trustees Greg Turner, | 15 | | Jonathan Vree, Peter Mulvaney, Barbara Miller, Gail Lissner,
| 16 | | and Dale Thomas; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Glencoe's residential development represents a | 18 | | museum of domestic architectural
styles dating from the | 19 | | mid-19th century, including the work of noted American | 20 | | architects
William Boyington, Howard van Doren Shaw, David | 21 | | Adler, George Fred, William Keck, and
George W. Maher, among |
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| 1 | | others, renown landscape architects Jens Jensen and Frederick | 2 | | Law
Olmsted Jr., and, most notably, the third largest | 3 | | collection of Frank Lloyd Wright designed
structures in the | 4 | | world; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, With its wooded bluffs and deep ravines that led | 6 | | early map makers to declare
Glencoe as "Queen of the Suburbs," | 7 | | the beauty of this community has been preserved through
the | 8 | | conservation of Lakefront Park and enhanced over the years with | 9 | | numerous additional parks,
the development of the Green Bay | 10 | | Trail, and the establishment of the Chicago Botanic Garden in
| 11 | | 1972; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, The people who have created, developed, and kept | 13 | | this community vibrant since its
incorporation represent a | 14 | | uniquely diverse group of residents from all racial and ethnic
| 15 | | backgrounds, from all religious backgrounds, and from all trade | 16 | | and business backgrounds who
have shared at least one common | 17 | | bond, their love of and commitment to Glencoe; therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 19 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 20 | | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we declare March 29, 2019 as | 21 | | "Glencoe Sesquicentennial Day" in the State of Illinois; and be | 22 | | it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Village of Glencoe President Lawrence Levin as a | 3 | | symbol of our respect and esteem.
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