Bill Text: IL HR0976 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Recognizes the City of Du Quoin for renaming the Popular Street Overpass after former mayor, John E. Rednour, and requests signage be placed by the Department of Transportaion indicating the name.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2014-05-09 - Resolution Adopted 103-000-000 [HR0976 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HR0976-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, For decades, Du Quoin mayors and city councils | ||||||
| 3 | worked without success to procure State and federal funding to | ||||||
| 4 | build an overpass across the mainline Illinois Central Railroad | ||||||
| 5 | tracks; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Without an overpass, traffic on Main and Popular | ||||||
| 7 | Streets was unnecessarily blocked by numerous daily freight, | ||||||
| 8 | coal, and passenger trains frequently delaying emergency | ||||||
| 9 | services to significant portions of town; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, The Honorable John E. Rednour, Mayor of the City | ||||||
| 11 | of Du Quoin from 1989 to 2013, successfully secured funding for | ||||||
| 12 | construction of the overpass; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Mayor Rednour led a walking procession across the | ||||||
| 14 | completed overpass in 1995; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, The Popular Street Overpass contributes daily to | ||||||
| 16 | the smooth, timely, and safe passage of commercial and private | ||||||
| 17 | traffic through the city and increases emergency access to all | ||||||
| 18 | parts of Du Quoin; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Without the effective leadership of Mayor Rednour | ||||||
| 20 | in securing the funding necessary to build the Popular Street | ||||||
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| 1 | Overpass, at little or no expense to the people of Du Quoin, | ||||||
| 2 | the project would not have been possible; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, On March 10, 2014, the City of Du Quoin renamed | ||||||
| 4 | the Popular Street Overpass after former mayor, John E. | ||||||
| 5 | Rednour, in honor of his many accomplishments while in office, | ||||||
| 6 | most notably, the construction of the overpass; therefore, be | ||||||
| 7 | it
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| 8 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 9 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
| 10 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we recognize the City of Du | ||||||
| 11 | Quoin on renaming the Popular Street Overpass after former | ||||||
| 12 | mayor, John E. Rednour; and be it further
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| 13 | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation
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| 14 | is requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with
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| 15 | State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs | ||||||
| 16 | giving notice of the name; and be it further
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| 17 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 18 | presented to Du Quoin Mayor Rex Duncan and to the Secretary of | ||||||
| 19 | the Illinois Department of Transportation.
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