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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Charles R. Amrich is retiring as Mayor of Island |
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| Lake; he has been mayor since 1985 and has served his term of |
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| office in the same building he attended grammar school; and
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| WHEREAS, During his time in office, Mayor Amrich has |
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| secured $3,000,000 in grants for Island Lake to help with park |
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| development, water main improvements, road improvements, storm |
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| sewer improvements, bridge replacement, and open space; and
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| WHEREAS, Mayor Amrich is a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam |
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| conflict; he also served as Assistant Chief of the Volunteer |
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| Wauconda Fire Department, Auxiliary Policeman for Island Lake |
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| from 1972 to 1976, Past President of the Island Lake Area Lions |
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| Club, and Salvation Army Donut Day Chairman for the past 27 |
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| years; he was named the Wauconda Island Lake Jaycees Citizen of |
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| the Year in 1982, served as President of the McHenry County |
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| Municipal Association in 1990, has been a member of the Lake |
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| County Block Grant Commission since 1997, is a member of the |
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| American Legion Post 911, and is a member of the Lake and VFW |
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| Post 2486; and
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| WHEREAS, Charles and Linda have four beautiful daughters: |
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| Christine, a graduate of Milikin University with a B.A. in |
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| Musical Theater; Catherine, a junior at Maryville College in |
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| Tennessee majoring in Education; Caroline, a junior at Marion |
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| Central Catholic High School in Woodstock; and Colleen, an |
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| eighth grader at Transfiguration in Wauconda; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we congratulate Mayor Charles R. Amrich on the occasion of his |
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| retirement as Mayor of Island Lake after 20 years, and we thank |
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| him for his faithful service to the citizens of Island Lake and |
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| the State of Illinois; and be it further
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