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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Bobby E. Thompson has been a political figure in |
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| the Lake County area for 18 years and was the first African |
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| American mayor in the county, having served as mayor of North |
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| Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, The portion of Illinois State Route 137 in |
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| Waukegan lying between Greenwood Avenue and Sheridan |
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| Road/McKinley Avenue is now known as the Amstutz Expressway; |
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| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE |
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| SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the portion of the Amstutz |
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| Expressway in the city limits of North Chicago be renamed the |
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| Bobby E. Thompson Expressway; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation |
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| is requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with |
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| State regulations, plaques or signs giving notice of the name; |
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| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |
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| presented to the Illinois Secretary of Transportation and to |
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| former North Chicago Mayor Bobby E. Thompson.
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