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1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, For decades, Du Quoin mayors and city councils | ||||||
3 | worked without success to procure State and federal funding to | ||||||
4 | build an overpass across the mainline Illinois Central Railroad | ||||||
5 | tracks; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Without an overpass, traffic on Main and Popular | ||||||
7 | Streets was unnecessarily blocked by numerous daily freight, | ||||||
8 | coal, and passenger trains frequently delaying emergency | ||||||
9 | services to significant portions of town; and
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10 | WHEREAS, The Honorable John E. Rednour, Mayor of the City | ||||||
11 | of Du Quoin from 1989 to 2013, successfully secured funding for | ||||||
12 | construction of the overpass; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Mayor Rednour led a walking procession across the | ||||||
14 | completed overpass in 1995; and
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15 | WHEREAS, The Popular Street Overpass contributes daily to | ||||||
16 | the smooth, timely, and safe passage of commercial and private | ||||||
17 | traffic through the city and increases emergency access to all | ||||||
18 | parts of Du Quoin; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Without the effective leadership of Mayor Rednour | ||||||
20 | in securing the funding necessary to build the Popular Street |
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1 | Overpass, at little or no expense to the people of Du Quoin, | ||||||
2 | the project would not have been possible; and | ||||||
3 | WHEREAS, On March 10, 2014, the City of Du Quoin renamed | ||||||
4 | the Popular Street Overpass after former mayor, John E. | ||||||
5 | Rednour, in honor of his many accomplishments while in office, | ||||||
6 | most notably, the construction of the overpass; therefore, be | ||||||
7 | it
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8 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
9 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | ||||||
10 | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we recognize the City of Du | ||||||
11 | Quoin on renaming the Popular Street Overpass after former | ||||||
12 | mayor, John E. Rednour; and be it further
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13 | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation
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14 | is requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with
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15 | State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs | ||||||
16 | giving notice of the name; and be it further | ||||||
17 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
18 | presented to Du Quoin Mayor Rex Duncan and to the Secretary of | ||||||
19 | the Illinois Department of Transportation.
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