Bill Text: IL HR0932 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Chief Paul J. Madigan of the Palos Hills Police Department on his retirement after over 50 years in law enforcement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-01-08 - Resolution Adopted [HR0932 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0932-Introduced.html
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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 Palos Hills Police Chief | ||||||
| 4 | Paul J. Madigan
on the occasion of his retirement after over 50 | ||||||
| 5 | years in law enforcement; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Chief Madigan began his career in law enforcement | ||||||
| 7 | in the late 1960s as a railroad detective; he joined the Palos | ||||||
| 8 | Hills Police Department in October of 1971 and has served in | ||||||
| 9 | every position within the department, which included a three | ||||||
| 10 | year
assignment with a regional undercover narcotics task | ||||||
| 11 | force; he became chief of the department in 1993; in 2002, he | ||||||
| 12 | formed one of the first regional SWAT teams
in the southwest | ||||||
| 13 | suburbs; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Chief Madigan retired from the United States Army | ||||||
| 15 | and Army Reserve
after serving for over 30 years; while serving | ||||||
| 16 | with the Palos Hills Police Department, he was deployed to | ||||||
| 17 | Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, for which he was awarded | ||||||
| 18 | the
Bronze Star; he was deployed numerous times on humanitarian
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| 19 | missions to Egypt, Nigeria, South America, and Central America; | ||||||
| 20 | while serving as the
command sergeant major of a joint task | ||||||
| 21 | force in Central America, he was awarded the Monja Blanca Medal | ||||||
| 22 | by the Guatemalan government for outstanding service to the | ||||||
| 23 | people of
Guatemala during recovery operations after the | ||||||
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| 1 | devastation of Hurricane Mitch; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Chief Madigan is currently serving as the | ||||||
| 3 | president of the Southwest Central Dispatch and Southwest
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| 4 | Central Regional 9-1-1 executive committee; he is also the | ||||||
| 5 | chairman of the board of directors
of the PLOWS Council on | ||||||
| 6 | Aging, a not-for-profit organization serving senior citizens | ||||||
| 7 | in the southwest
suburbs; therefore, be it
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| 8 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 9 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 10 | we congratulate Palos Hills Police Chief Paul J. Madigan on his | ||||||
| 11 | retirement after over 50 years in law enforcement, and we wish | ||||||
| 12 | him the best in all of his future endeavors; and be it further
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| 13 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 14 | presented to Chief Madigan as a symbol of our respect and | ||||||
| 15 | esteem.
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