Bill Text: IL HR0126 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Honors former State Representative Tom Cross for his service to Kendall County, Will County, and the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 41-2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-02-18 - Resolution Adopted [HR0126 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0126-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives wish to honor former State Representative Tom | ||||||
4 | Cross for his service to Kendall County, Will County, and the | ||||||
5 | State of Illinois; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Rep. Cross grew up in northeastern Illinois, | ||||||
7 | graduating from Yorkville High School in 1976;
after graduating | ||||||
8 | from law school, he returned to northeastern Illinois and | ||||||
9 | defended
public safety as an assistant prosecutor in the office | ||||||
10 | of Kendall County State's Attorney
Dallas Ingemunson; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Kendall County and western Will County enjoyed | ||||||
12 | strong population growth in the 1980s;
this created new | ||||||
13 | challenges but also led to the creation of a new seat in the | ||||||
14 | Illinois House in
1991; Rep. Cross was urged to use this | ||||||
15 | opportunity to step up his service to his home
communities;
in | ||||||
16 | March of 1992, he won a primary race for the new seat by a 3-1 | ||||||
17 | margin, and, in
November of 1992, he won a landslide victory | ||||||
18 | with a vote total of 57.9%, to earn his first term in the
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19 | Illinois House of Representatives;
in January of 1993, with his | ||||||
20 | prosecutorial experience, he was chosen to serve as | ||||||
21 | vice-spokesperson on the House Judiciary-Criminal
Law | ||||||
22 | Committee; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Aware of the commuting challenges facing his | ||||||
2 | fast-growing district, Rep. Cross asked
for, and received, a | ||||||
3 | seat on the House Transportation and Motor Vehicles Committee; | ||||||
4 | for more than 20 years, he has paid attention to the | ||||||
5 | public-safety and the
transportation-infrastructure needs of | ||||||
6 | his neighbors and the communities he has represented; in | ||||||
7 | January of 1995, when House Republicans took over the majority, | ||||||
8 | he became Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary-Civil | ||||||
9 | Law, using his committee to
create legal reforms and fighting | ||||||
10 | for Illinois economic growth and development; this theme
would | ||||||
11 | be a focus of his State and local leadership; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Throughout the 1990s, Rep. Cross continued to | ||||||
13 | fight for civil and criminal legal reforms and for
State | ||||||
14 | infrastructure and development, winning the respect of his | ||||||
15 | Springfield colleagues as he
had won the respect of his | ||||||
16 | neighbors in his home district; in January of 2003, his House | ||||||
17 | colleagues chose him to be their House Republican
Leader, a | ||||||
18 | post in which he would continue to serve for more than 10 | ||||||
19 | years; and
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20 | WHEREAS, The trends of economic and social change south of | ||||||
21 | Aurora and west of Joliet have made it all
the more obvious | ||||||
22 | that civil justice reform, a tough but compassionate structure | ||||||
23 | of State
criminal law, and a productivity-oriented | ||||||
24 | infrastructure are necessary pieces to make a bright
future for |
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1 | the people of this fast-growing area and for all of Illinois; | ||||||
2 | therefore be it; therefore, be it
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3 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
4 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
5 | honor former State Representative Tom Cross for his service to | ||||||
6 | Kendall County, Will County, and the State of Illinois and wish | ||||||
7 | him and his family the best in all their future endeavors; and | ||||||
8 | be it further
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9 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
10 | presented to Rep. Cross as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
11 | respect.
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