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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 Union Pacific | ||||||
| 4 | Railroad on the 150th anniversary of the railroad in 2012; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific | ||||||
| 6 | Railway Act of July 1, 1862, creating the original Union | ||||||
| 7 | Pacific; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Union Pacific is the largest railroad in the Rail | ||||||
| 9 | Capital of Chicago; the Proviso Rail Yard is located in | ||||||
| 10 | Northlake, Bellwood, Berkeley, and Melrose Park and is one of | ||||||
| 11 | the largest rail yards in the company's system; 25% of all of | ||||||
| 12 | the rail traffic on the Union Pacific travels through the | ||||||
| 13 | Chicago Rail Terminal; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Union Pacific has rail yards throughout the State | ||||||
| 15 | of Illinois located in Dolton, Chicago Heights, Rochelle, West | ||||||
| 16 | Chicago, Dupo, and Salem, and has 2,201 miles of track | ||||||
| 17 | traversing hundreds of communities; and | ||||||
| 18 | WHEREAS, Union Pacific serves 115,000 commuters daily on | ||||||
| 19 | the Union Pacific Metra North, Northwest, and West Lines, and | ||||||
| 20 | operates more trains for Metra than any other carrier in the | ||||||
| 21 | Chicagoland area; and | ||||||
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Today, Union Pacific Railroad is the principal | ||||||
| 2 | operating company of Union Pacific Corporation, linking 23 | ||||||
| 3 | states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail and | ||||||
| 4 | providing freight solutions and logistics expertise to the | ||||||
| 5 | global supply chain; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Major commodities transported by Union Pacific | ||||||
| 7 | include corn, soybeans, automobile parts, completed | ||||||
| 8 | automobiles, and general merchandise; particularly important | ||||||
| 9 | to the company is the coal mining industry in southern | ||||||
| 10 | Illinois; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Union Pacific's capital investment in Illinois | ||||||
| 12 | was more than $470 million over the last 2 years; in 2010, | ||||||
| 13 | Union Pacific had 4,035 employees in Illinois with an annual | ||||||
| 14 | payroll of $327.3 million; and | ||||||
| 15 | WHEREAS, Union Pacific, during the height of the Great | ||||||
| 16 | Recession in 2009, spent $370 million to construct the Joliet | ||||||
| 17 | Intermodal Terminal, creating thousands of transportation and | ||||||
| 18 | construction jobs to compliment their other 6 intermodal | ||||||
| 19 | container terminals throughout the State that collectively | ||||||
| 20 | lift 1.3 million containers annually; and | ||||||
| 21 | WHEREAS, Union Pacific partners with the State of Illinois, | ||||||
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| 1 | the City of Chicago, and Metra in a number of public private | ||||||
| 2 | partnerships, such as the CREATE Program, UP Metra West Line | ||||||
| 3 | Improvement Project, and the Illinois High Speed Rail Project; | ||||||
| 4 | and | ||||||
| 5 | WHEREAS, Union Pacific provided more than $675,000 to | ||||||
| 6 | charitable organizations in the State; therefore, be it
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| 7 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 8 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 9 | we congratulate Union Pacific Railroad on its 150th | ||||||
| 10 | anniversary; and be it further
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| 11 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 12 | presented to Union Pacific Railroad as a symbol of our respect | ||||||
| 13 | and esteem.
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