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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, BMO Financial Group is a highly diversified North |
| 3 | | American financial services
provider, one that has 45,000 |
| 4 | | employees and provides a broad range of retail banking,
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| 5 | | commercial banking, wealth management, and investment banking |
| 6 | | products and services to
more than 12 million customers; and
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| 7 | | WHEREAS, BMO's United States retail headquarters are |
| 8 | | located in Chicago; and
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| 9 | | WHEREAS, 2017 marks BMO's bicentennial; for 200 years, it |
| 10 | | has been financing economic expansion and
playing an important |
| 11 | | role in the growth of two great nations, Canada and the United |
| 12 | | States,
and helping many, many customers achieve their |
| 13 | | ambitions along the way; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, BMO has taken a long-term view of customer |
| 15 | | relationships, economic
cycles, and responsibility to the |
| 16 | | community; therefore, be it
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| 17 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
| 18 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
| 19 | | declare April 13, 2017 as "BMO Financial Group Day" in the |
| 20 | | State of Illinois, and we encourage the citizens of Illinois to |
| 21 | | recognize the long and proud history of this important |