Bill Text: IL HR1543 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Terry Boers on his retirement after 25 years of talking sports on weekday afternoons on 670 The Score in Chicago.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-01-09 - Resolution Adopted [HR1543 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR1543-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 congratulate Terry Boers on the | ||||||
4 | occasion of his retirement after 25 years of talking sports on | ||||||
5 | weekday afternoons on 670 The Score in Chicago; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Terry Boers is the co-host of "The Boers and | ||||||
7 | Bernstein Show" from 1 to 6 p.m. on weekday afternoons on The | ||||||
8 | Score; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Terry Boers began his career as sports editor for | ||||||
10 | the Sun Journal Newspapers in Lansing; from 1973 to 1978, he | ||||||
11 | was assistant sports editor for Star Publications; he then | ||||||
12 | worked as a
copy editor for the Detroit Free Press from 1978 to | ||||||
13 | 1980; he left Detroit in 1980 to join the Chicago Sun-Times | ||||||
14 | sports staff, where he covered the Chicago Bulls from 1982 to | ||||||
15 | 1985, and
was a featured columnist from 1988 to 1990; he then | ||||||
16 | covered a variety of sports until August of 1992 when he joined | ||||||
17 | The Score; and
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18 | WHEREAS, Terry Boers has won several awards for outstanding | ||||||
19 | journalistic coverage, including the Peter Lisagor Award, | ||||||
20 | considered
among Chicago print journalists as the local | ||||||
21 | equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize; he has also won Associated | ||||||
22 | Press awards for column and feature
writing; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Terry Boers is a Northern Illinois University | ||||||
2 | alum; he and his wife have four sons; 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 | congratulate Terry Boers on his retirement after 25 years of | ||||||
6 | talking sports on weekday afternoons on 670 The Score, and we | ||||||
7 | wish him the best in all his future endeavors; and be it | ||||||
8 | further
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9 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
10 | presented to Terry Boers as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
11 | respect.
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