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| 3 | 3 | | 1 HOUSE RESOLUTION |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2 WHEREAS, A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film |
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| 5 | 5 | | 3 directed by Bob Clark and based on Chicago-born Jean |
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| 6 | 6 | | 4 Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We |
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| 7 | 7 | | 5 Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 |
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| 8 | 8 | | 6 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories And Other |
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| 9 | 9 | | 7 Disasters; and |
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| 10 | 10 | | 8 WHEREAS, A Christmas Story was released on November 18, |
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| 11 | 11 | | 9 1983; initially overlooked, its critical reputation has grown |
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| 12 | 12 | | 10 considerably over the years, and it is regarded by some as one |
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| 13 | 13 | | 11 of the best films of 1983; and |
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| 14 | 14 | | 12 WHEREAS, Author Jean Shepherd was born in 1921 on the |
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| 15 | 15 | | 13 south side of Chicago; he briefly lived in East Chicago, |
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| 16 | 16 | | 14 Indiana and was raised in Hammond, Indiana; he set A Christmas |
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| 17 | 17 | | 15 Story in Hohman, Indiana, a fictionalized version of his |
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| 18 | 18 | | 16 hometown of Hammond; and |
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| 19 | 19 | | 17 WHEREAS, A Christmas Story has been shown in a marathon |
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| 20 | 20 | | 18 annually on TNT since 1997 and on TBS since 2004 titled "24 |
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| 21 | 21 | | 19 Hours of A Christmas Story", consisting of 12 consecutive |
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| 22 | 22 | | 20 airings of the film from the evening of Christmas Eve to the |
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| 23 | 23 | | 21 evening of Christmas Day; and |
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| 32 | 32 | | 1 WHEREAS, A Christmas Story is often ranked as one of the |
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| 33 | 33 | | 2 best Christmas films; in 2012, it was selected for |
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| 34 | 34 | | 3 preservation in the United States National Film Registry by |
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| 35 | 35 | | 4 the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, |
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| 36 | 36 | | 5 or aesthetically significant"; and |
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| 37 | 37 | | 6 WHEREAS, Yano Anaya, who played Grover Dill, Emmanuel |
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| 38 | 38 | | 7 Soba, co-creator of A Christmas Story Family, and Paul A. |
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| 39 | 39 | | 8 Bachmann, business partner, helped create the online |
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| 40 | 40 | | 9 community, A Christmas Story Family, designed to connect fans |
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| 41 | 41 | | 10 with the cast members; therefore, be it |
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| 42 | 42 | | 11 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
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| 43 | 43 | | 12 HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| 44 | 44 | | 13 we declare November 18, 2023 as "A Christmas Story Family Day" |
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| 45 | 45 | | 14 in the State of Illinois; and be it further |
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| 46 | 46 | | 15 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be |
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| 47 | 47 | | 16 presented to Yano Anaya, Emmanuel Soba, and Paul A. Bachmann |
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| 48 | 48 | | 17 as a symbol of our respect and esteem. |
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