Bill Text: IL HJR0016 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the International Olympic Committee to consider the use of the World Shooting & Recreational Complex in Sparta for Olympics shooting events in the event that the City of Chicago is picked as the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-04-30 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ron Stephens [HJR0016 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HJR0016-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The International Olympic Committee is currently | ||||||
| 3 | contemplating the use of facilities in the City of Chicago for | ||||||
| 4 | the 2016 Summer Olympic Games; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, The World Shooting & Recreational Complex in | ||||||
| 6 | Sparta is a public shooting and camping facility that features | ||||||
| 7 | over 1500 acres of available space, including 250 acres of | ||||||
| 8 | water, as well as 120 trap fields extending 3.5 miles, 2 | ||||||
| 9 | sporting clays courses, and 24 skeet fields; over $35 million | ||||||
| 10 | has been spent on the complex's world-class facilities; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, The Grand American World Trap Shooting | ||||||
| 12 | Championships, held at the World Shooting & Recreational | ||||||
| 13 | Complex, have attracted thousands of competitors and tens of | ||||||
| 14 | thousands of spectators since the complex began hosting the | ||||||
| 15 | competition in August of 2006; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, The use of the World Shooting & Recreational | ||||||
| 17 | Complex will enable the citizens of the State of Illinois as a | ||||||
| 18 | whole to benefit from the economic stimulus that the Olympics | ||||||
| 19 | provide to local businesses; therefore, be it
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| 20 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 21 | NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
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| 1 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we urge the International | ||||||
| 2 | Olympic Committee to consider the use of the World Shooting & | ||||||
| 3 | Recreational Complex in Sparta for Olympics shooting events in | ||||||
| 4 | the event that the City of Chicago is picked as the host city | ||||||
| 5 | for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games; and be it further
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| 6 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 7 | presented to the International Olympic Committee.
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