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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Section 14.1 of the Toll Highway Act provides that |
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| prior to the issuance of bonds for or the commencement of |
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| construction of any new toll highway, that particular toll |
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| highway shall be authorized by joint resolution of the General |
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| Assembly; and
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| WHEREAS, The General Assembly finds that it is in the best |
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| interests of the People of the State of Illinois to expand the |
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| Illinois toll highway system; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE |
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| SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the Illinois State Toll Highway |
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| Authority be authorized to expand the Illinois toll highway |
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| system to include a Crosstown Expressway, with the Expressway |
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| to be constructed generally along railroad right-of-way in the |
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| Cicero Avenue corridor from near the Kennedy/Edens Expressway |
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| junction south to approximately 75th Street, and then, |
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| following railroad rights-of-way, east to the Dan Ryan |
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| Expressway; and that every possible effort be made to use |
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| railroad right-of-way and minimize the disruption of all |
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| residential areas; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to |