Full Text of HJR0145 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, On Wednesday, January 12, 2011, the City of | 3 | | Chicago lost Hazel M. Johnson, the Mother of Environmental | 4 | | Justice; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Mrs. Hazel Johnson, a longtime resident of Altgeld | 6 | | Gardens, worked tirelessly to bring a change to the | 7 | | environmental conditions on the far South Side of the City; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, In the 1980s, Mrs. Hazel Johnson founded a group | 9 | | called People for Community Recovery and put pressure on the | 10 | | Chicago Housing Authority to remove asbestos from Altgeld | 11 | | Gardens; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Mrs. Hazel Johnson's work in the community | 13 | | introduced her to a young organizer named Barack Obama, who | 14 | | worked closely with her on the asbestos abatement effort; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Mrs. Hazel Johnson was instrumental in convincing | 16 | | city health officials to test drinking water at Maryland Manor, | 17 | | a far South Side neighborhood, where they found cyanide and | 18 | | toxins in the water; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Mrs. Hazel Johnson joined a group of activists in | 20 | | urging President Bill Clinton to sign the Environmental Justice |
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| 1 | | Executive Order, which holds the federal government | 2 | | responsible for communities exposed to pollution; therefore, | 3 | | be it
| 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 6 | | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we designate the portion of | 7 | | 130th Street from the Bishop Ford Freeway to State Street in | 8 | | Chicago as the "Hazel Johnson EJ Way"; and be it further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That the Department of Transportation is | 10 | | requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with State | 11 | | and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs giving | 12 | | notice of the name of the "Hazel Johnson EJ Way"; and be it | 13 | | further | 14 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 15 | | presented to Cheryl Johnson, the daughter of the Mother of | 16 | | Environmental Justice, and the Secretary of Transportation.
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