Full Text of HR0488 095th General Assembly
HR0488 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Glen Ellyn Public Library is 100 years old | 3 |
| this year; it was established in 1907 to provide an invaluable | 4 |
| resource to the then small community of Glen Ellyn; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1881, when Glen Ellyn was called Prospect Park, | 6 |
| the Library Association of Prospect Park was organized and | 7 |
| twenty people paid five dollars each to purchase 100 books from | 8 |
| a Harper Brother's salesman; 100 books were placed in a | 9 |
| bookcase and stored in the Congregational Church basement; in | 10 |
| 1907, a group of ten women met to begin the Glen Ellyn Library | 11 |
| Association, and to raise money they held teas and charged a | 12 |
| ten-cent admission fee; the ladies of the Glen Ellyn Library | 13 |
| Association met with Bessie Baldwin, the Wheaton Library's | 14 |
| librarian, who instructed the committee on the preparation of | 15 |
| books for circulation; and
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| WHEREAS, In May 1907, the library opened to the subscribers | 17 |
| and fifty-six membership cards were issued; its collection | 18 |
| included those original 100 books plus 40 new books purchased | 19 |
| with the proceeds of on-going afternoon teas and donated | 20 |
| volumes; on July 23, 1907 the Glen Ellyn Library Association | 21 |
| was legally registered with the Secretary of State; and
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| WHEREAS, The Glen Ellyn Library grew from a small room in |
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| the Village Hall to the room above Boyd's Hardware store and, | 2 |
| in 1911, the library purchased the Nickerson house on | 3 |
| Pennsylvania Avenue; contact was made with Andrew Carnegie | 4 |
| about the construction of a library in Glen Ellyn; Mr. | 5 |
| Carnegie's grant of $10,000 came with two conditions: the | 6 |
| building site must be provided free and clear and the village | 7 |
| must assume the maintenance of the facility; the Library | 8 |
| Association secured the land at the corner of Park and Crescent | 9 |
| from the William Grimshaw family, George Awsumb was chosen as | 10 |
| architect, and construction was started on the new building; | 11 |
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| WHEREAS, On September 14, 1914, the Glen Ellyn Free Public | 13 |
| Library, which could accommodate 5,000 books, opened to the | 14 |
| public; in April 1961, a second addition was added to the front | 15 |
| of the original Carnegie building, bringing the total shelf | 16 |
| capacity to 50,000 volumes; in 1980 a third addition was added; | 17 |
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| WHEREAS, On December 16, 1995, a new library facility | 19 |
| opened to the public at its new location at the corner of Duane | 20 |
| and Prospect; the floor space is 52,000 square feet, which is | 21 |
| double the size of the old building; it has 210,000 items | 22 |
| housed in its collection; this came to be because of an idea | 23 |
| from ten women who retrieved 100 books from basement storage in | 24 |
| 1907; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 3 |
| congratulate the staff and patrons of the Glen Ellyn Public | 4 |
| Library on the 100th anniversary of the institution; and be it | 5 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 |
| presented to the staff of the Glen Ellyn Public Library as a | 8 |
| symbol of our respect.
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