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| 1 |  | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 |  |     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of  | 
| 3 |  | Representatives wish to congratulate Captain Elton McClendon  | 
| 4 |  | on the occasion of his retirement from the Chicago Police  | 
| 5 |  | Department on May 15, 2004; and
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| 6 |  |     WHEREAS, Captain McClendon was one of the first Field  | 
| 7 |  | Training Officer's for the Chicago Police Department; he was  | 
| 8 |  | promoted to Sergeant ranking 54 out of 8,000 applicants, he  | 
| 9 |  | attended and graduated from Northwestern University's School  | 
| 10 |  | of Command, and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant where he  | 
| 11 |  | placed number 4 within 600 finalists; and
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| 12 |  |     WHEREAS, Captain McClendon attended Chicago State  | 
| 13 |  | University at the age of 55, earning his Bachelor's and  | 
| 14 |  | Master's degrees; and
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| 15 |  |     WHEREAS, He has been privileged to sit on a Blue Ribbon  | 
| 16 |  | Panel which initiated the present mandatory drug screening  | 
| 17 |  | process that the Chicago Police Department is currently using;  | 
| 18 |  | he was sent to Birmingham, Alabama, by the Department to sit on  | 
| 19 |  | an assessment panel where he interviewed applicants for the  | 
| 20 |  | position of Lieutenants in the Birmingham Police Department and  | 
| 21 |  | the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department; and
 
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| 22 |  |     WHEREAS, On May 13, 2004, a celebration in honor of Captain  | 
| 23 |  | McClendon retirement was held at South Shore Cultural Center in  | 
| 24 |  | Chicago; therefore, be it
 
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| 25 |  |     RESOLVED, BY THE  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE  | 
| 26 |  | NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we  | 
| 27 |  | congratulate Captain Elton McClendon on his retirement after 33  | 
| 28 |  | faithful years with the Chicago Police Department; and we wish  | 
| 29 |  | him good health and happiness in all his future endeavors; and  | 
| 30 |  | be it further
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