Bill Text: IL HR0170 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requests the Illinois Department of Transportation to erect at suitable locations, consistent with State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs directing people to the location of the Trail of Death historical marker in Decatur.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-18 - Resolution Adopted [HR0170 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0170-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced | ||||||
| 3 | removal by militia in 1838 of approximately 859 members of the | ||||||
| 4 | Potawatomi nation from Indiana to reservation lands in what is | ||||||
| 5 | now eastern Kansas; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, During the journey to Kansas, 42 people died, 28 | ||||||
| 7 | of them children; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The Trail of Death passed through Decatur in what | ||||||
| 9 | is now Mueller Park; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, A historical marker known as The Rock was placed | ||||||
| 11 | in Mueller Park on Lake Shore Drive in 1994 by Zita and Bernard | ||||||
| 12 | Wright to commemorate the trail; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, There is no road sign directing people to the | ||||||
| 14 | historical marker; therefore, be it
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| 15 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 16 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 17 | the Illinois Department of Transportation is requested to | ||||||
| 18 | erect at suitable locations, consistent with State and federal | ||||||
| 19 | regulations, appropriate plaques or signs directing people to | ||||||
| 20 | the location of the Trail of Death historical marker; and be it | ||||||
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| 1 | further
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| 2 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 3 | delivered to the Secretary of the Illinois Department of | ||||||
| 4 | Transportation.
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