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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives are pleased to help commemorate the life of |
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| Jeremy Chambers, a police officer with the Cahokia Police |
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| Department, who was killed in the line of duty on April 24, |
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| 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Officer Chambers was a police officer with the |
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| Cahokia Police Department and a member of FOP Lodge 216 and the |
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| International Police Association, Lodge 57; he was a past |
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| captain and training officer with the Cahokia Volunteer Fire |
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| Department, where he was the department's Firefighter of the |
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| Year in 1999; and
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| WHEREAS, He graduated from Gibault Catholic High School in |
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| Waterloo in 1998 and Southwestern Illinois Police Academy in |
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| 2003, where he won the Marksman Award; he was a member of the |
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| Knights of Columbus Council 4596 in Cahokia; and
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| WHEREAS, Jeremy Chambers was a volunteer firefighter who |
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| went to New York City after the attacks on September 11, 2001 |
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| to help in rescue efforts; he also worked as an emergency |
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| medical technician, volunteer fireman, and an auxiliary |
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| policeman, and a lifeguard before being hired by the police |
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| department; and
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| WHEREAS, Jeremy Chambers was the only police officer to be |
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| killed in the line of duty in the 79 year history of the |
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| Cahokia Police Department; and
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| WHEREAS, Jeremy Chambers was from a family dedicated to law |
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| enforcement, including his father, brother, sister-in-law, and |
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| brother-in-law; and
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| WHEREAS, He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Earl |
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| and Virginia Chambers and Ralph and Dathney Hooker; and his |
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| aunt, Connie McCollom; and
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| WHEREAS, Jeremy Chambers is survived by his parents, Earl |
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| and Diane, nee Hooker, Chambers; his brother, Chris (Jessica) |
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| Chambers; his sister, Denise (Mark) Schilli; his nephew, |
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| Garrett; his nieces, Logan and Hayden; and a dear friend, |
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| Cheryl Caribardi; and
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| WHEREAS, On April 24, 2007 a Celebration of the Life of |
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| Jeremy Chambers will be held, with Mass at Holy Family Church, |
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| a monument dedication, and a dinner and candlelight vigil at |
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| the Knights of Columbus Hall; 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, that we |