Bill Text: IL HR0252 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the National Football League to continue to hold the National Football League Player Selection Meeting (NFL Draft) in the Chicago area.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4)
Status: (Passed) 2015-04-29 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly [HR0252 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0252-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The 3-day National Football League Player | ||||||
3 | Selection Meeting, commonly known
as the "NFL Draft", is one of | ||||||
4 | the most widely-viewed sports events on worldwide television | ||||||
5 | that
does not involve an athletic contest; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The signing by the Chicago Bears of University of | ||||||
7 | Illinois great, "Red" Grange, in
1925 was the first significant | ||||||
8 | transition of a college football superstar to the National | ||||||
9 | Football
League, setting the stage for the coming century of | ||||||
10 | "America's game"; and
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11 | WHEREAS, The owner and founder of the Chicago Bears, George | ||||||
12 | Halas, is a key figure in the history
of the National Football | ||||||
13 | League, recognized as such through the George Halas Trophy, | ||||||
14 | awarded
annually to the champion of the National Football | ||||||
15 | Conference within the National
Football League; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Twenty-nine of the 500 firms listed in the Fortune | ||||||
17 | 500 list are headquartered in the
greater Chicago area, | ||||||
18 | including many firms that partner with the National Football | ||||||
19 | League and
its 32 teams in a variety of ways; and
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20 | WHEREAS, The 2015 Draft will be hosted at the Auditorium | ||||||
21 | Theater of the Roosevelt
University in Chicago, the first time |
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1 | the draft has returned to Chicago since it was held in the
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2 | Sheraton Chicago Hotel in 1964; and
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3 | WHEREAS, The Chicago area
will continue to be a superb | ||||||
4 | location and headquarters for the annual NFL Draft; therefore, | ||||||
5 | be it
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6 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
7 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
8 | invite the National Football
League to continue to hold the | ||||||
9 | National Football League Player Selection Meeting in the | ||||||
10 | Chicago area as a
gesture to the heritage of the NFL and a | ||||||
11 | gesture toward the future; and be it further
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12 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
13 | delivered to Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the
National | ||||||
14 | Football League, George Mccaskey, Chairman of the Chicago | ||||||
15 | Bears, and the 31 other
teams of the National Football League.
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