Bill Text: IL HR0918 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requests the Illinois Department of Transportation to erect signs directing people to the location of the Trail of Death historical marker in Decatur.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-11-15 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR0918 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HR0918-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced | ||||||
| 3 | removal by militia in 1838 of approximately 859 members of the | ||||||
| 4 | Potawatomi nation from Indiana to reservation lands in what is | ||||||
| 5 | now eastern Kansas; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, During the journey to Kansas, 42 people died, 28 | ||||||
| 7 | of them children; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The Trail of Death passed through Decatur in what | ||||||
| 9 | is now Mueller Park; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, A historical marker known as The Rock was placed | ||||||
| 11 | in Mueller Park on Lake Shore Drive in 1994 by Zita and Bernard | ||||||
| 12 | Wright to commemorate the trail; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, There is no road sign directing people to the | ||||||
| 14 | historical marker; therefore, be it
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| 15 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 16 | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 17 | the Illinois Department of Transportation
is requested to | ||||||
| 18 | erect at suitable locations, consistent with
State and federal | ||||||
| 19 | regulations, appropriate plaques or signs
directing people to | ||||||
| 20 | the location of the Trail of Death historical marker; and be it | ||||||
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| 1 | further
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| 2 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 3 | delivered to the Secretary of the Illinois Department of | ||||||
| 4 | Transportation.
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