Bill Text: IL HR0626 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Doug Quick on being named the Illiana Genealogical & Historical Society Foundation's 2024 Historical Preservation Award honoree.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-03-05 - Resolution Adopted [HR0626 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0626-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Doug Quick on being named | ||||||
4 | the Illiana Genealogical & Historical Society Foundation's | ||||||
5 | 2024 Historical Preservation Award honoree; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Doug Quick's nearly five-decade career in | ||||||
7 | broadcasting began in 1974 at WTIM/WTIM-FM in his hometown of | ||||||
8 | Taylorville; he worked at several Central Illinois radio | ||||||
9 | stations over the years until his move to television; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Doug Quick began at WICD-TV as promotions | ||||||
11 | director in 1994; he then had a successful 25-year career as a | ||||||
12 | radio broadcaster, manager, and sales representative; he | ||||||
13 | retired as the market's longest tenured weathercaster on | ||||||
14 | September 30, 2021, having been broadcasting weather at the | ||||||
15 | Champaign studios since 1996; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Doug Quick has been active over the years in the | ||||||
17 | preservation of Vermilion County and Central Illinois history, | ||||||
18 | primarily in the fields of communications and the early years | ||||||
19 | of television in Central Illinois; in 2017, he published | ||||||
20 | Pictures on the Prairie: The First Ten Years of Mid-Illinois | ||||||
21 | Television; he has maintained his Central Illinois OnLine | ||||||
22 | Broadcast Museum at dougquick.com for over 20 years; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Doug Quick has been awarded the Silver Circle | ||||||
2 | Award from the Midwest Academy of Television Arts and Science | ||||||
3 | in 2013, the Silver Dome Award for Medium Market Best Anchor in | ||||||
4 | 2017 and in 2022, and the Russell Withers Jr. Broadcast | ||||||
5 | Pioneer Award for Central Illinois; therefore, be it
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6 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
7 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
8 | we congratulate Doug Quick on being named the Illiana | ||||||
9 | Genealogical & Historical Society Foundation's 2024 Historical | ||||||
10 | Preservation Award honoree; and be it further
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