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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate the citizens of the | ||||||
| 4 | Village of Lostant on the occasion of the village's 150th | ||||||
| 5 | anniversary; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, The Village of Lostant was founded in Hope | ||||||
| 7 | Township in southern LaSalle County in 1861 during the first | ||||||
| 8 | months of the Civil War; the village was originally named | ||||||
| 9 | Ellsworth, in honor of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, the first | ||||||
| 10 | officer to be killed in the Civil War; the village was renamed | ||||||
| 11 | Lostant in 1863 in honor of a stockholder of the Illinois | ||||||
| 12 | Central Railroad; the village was formally incorporated in | ||||||
| 13 | 1867; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Located at the intersection of the Illinois | ||||||
| 15 | Central and New York Central Railroads, the Village of Lostant | ||||||
| 16 | has served as an important grain shipping point for | ||||||
| 17 | southwestern LaSalle County since its inception; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, The Village of Lostant, with a population of 498, | ||||||
| 19 | is representative of many small towns in rural Illinois; | ||||||
| 20 | Lostant provides important services to southwest LaSalle | ||||||
| 21 | County, including volunteer fire protection, volunteer | ||||||
| 22 | ambulance service, a library, a school, a bank, a post office, | ||||||
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| 1 | a variety of farm services, and several small manufacturers; | ||||||
| 2 | and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Lostant has always provided an excellent | ||||||
| 4 | educational opportunity for local residents; the village's | ||||||
| 5 | first school was a one room school built in 1862; the village's | ||||||
| 6 | first two-story school house was built in 1868; students in | ||||||
| 7 | Lostant consistently match or exceed the performance of their | ||||||
| 8 | peers around the State of Illinois; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Lostant's residents have served their country in | ||||||
| 10 | every war since the village's founding; the village's cemetery | ||||||
| 11 | includes a veteran from the Spanish-American War and at least | ||||||
| 12 | 14 veterans of the Civil War; American Legion Post 173 | ||||||
| 13 | continues to serve the veterans of the area; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Lostant is the hometown of Air Force Colonel | ||||||
| 15 | Milton Hartenbower, the 684th person to fly at Mach 2; Colonel | ||||||
| 16 | Hartenbower served one tour in Korea and two tours in Vietnam, | ||||||
| 17 | and helped design early remote control aircraft during his 27 | ||||||
| 18 | years in the United States Air Force before retiring to his | ||||||
| 19 | hometown; in addition, noted Chicago sculptor Laredo Taft | ||||||
| 20 | favored clay mined in Lostant for his models; and | ||||||
| 21 | WHEREAS, The citizens of the Village of Lostant will | ||||||
| 22 | celebrate the 150th anniversary of the village's founding in | ||||||
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| 1 | the summer of 2011; therefore, be it
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| 2 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 3 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 4 | we congratulate the citizens of the Village of Lostant on the | ||||||
| 5 | occasion of the village's 150th anniversary and wish them | ||||||
| 6 | continued success and happiness in the future; and be it | ||||||
| 7 | further
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| 8 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 9 | presented to Fred Hartenbower, Mayor of the Village of Lostant, | ||||||
| 10 | as a symbol of our esteem and respect.
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