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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives wish to congratulate Eira Corral Sepulveda of | ||||||
| 4 | Hanover Park on being named Citizen of the Year; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Eira Corral Sepulveda has been a resident of | ||||||
| 6 | Hanover Park since 1990; she was elected Village Clerk in 2009 | ||||||
| 7 | at the age of 23 - the youngest elected official in the State | ||||||
| 8 | of Illinois; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Eira Corral Sepulveda has been active in engaging | ||||||
| 10 | the community of Hanover Park through her involvement in local | ||||||
| 11 | parishes and
community organizations; she was appointed to the | ||||||
| 12 | Cultural Inclusion and Diversity
Committee for the Village of | ||||||
| 13 | Hanover Park; she has worked with Centro de Informacion of | ||||||
| 14 | Hanover Park in mentoring students from Ontarioville | ||||||
| 15 | Elementary School and has been a committed supporter of the | ||||||
| 16 | annual mental
health fair; she organizes leaders in Hanover | ||||||
| 17 | Park to coordinate community outreach events that include | ||||||
| 18 | immigration workshops,
consumer protection seminars with the | ||||||
| 19 | Office of Attorney General Lisa Madigan, property tax relief | ||||||
| 20 | assistance, and
Surviving this Economic Crisis Symposium; and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, Eira Corral Sepulveda's professional experience | ||||||
| 22 | has been with the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute | ||||||
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| 1 | (USHLI), a national, non-profit
and non-partisan organization; | ||||||
| 2 | she manages several of the USHLI Programs to develop Latino | ||||||
| 3 | civic participation and
leadership development for high school | ||||||
| 4 | and college students, community leaders, and Latino | ||||||
| 5 | professionals; she
engaged and trained young leaders in | ||||||
| 6 | strategizing a voter registration campaign and Get Out the Vote | ||||||
| 7 | campaign that led to the civic participation for the 2008 | ||||||
| 8 | election of over 62,000 eligible voters in more than 11 states; | ||||||
| 9 | and | ||||||
| 10 | WHEREAS, Eira Corral Sepulveda earned
her Bachelor of Arts | ||||||
| 11 | from DePaul University with a double major in Political Science | ||||||
| 12 | and Latino and Latin American
Studies; she has a double minor | ||||||
| 13 | in Community Service Studies and Commercial Spanish; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Eira Corral Sepulveda will receive her award from | ||||||
| 15 | Hanover Park Village President Rodney S. Craig; therefore, be | ||||||
| 16 | it
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| 17 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 18 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 19 | congratulate Eira Corral Sepulveda of Hanover Park on being | ||||||
| 20 | named Citizen of the Year and we thank her for her commitment | ||||||
| 21 | to her community; and be it further
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| 22 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
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| 1 | presented to Eira Corral Sepulveda as an expression of our | ||||||
| 2 | esteem and respect.
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