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4	4		2 WHEREAS, Bulgaria and the United States are strategic
5	5		3 partners and allies, sharing ties of culture, tradition, and
6	6		4 common interest; and
7	7		5 WHEREAS, The year 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the
8	8		6 United States Senate's ratification of the Protocol for
9	9		7 Accession of Bulgaria into the North Atlantic Treaty
10	10		8 Organization (NATO), the 80th anniversary of the Bulgarian
11	11		9 people's rescue of the Bulgarian Jews, the 120th anniversary
12	12		10 of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the
13	13		11 United States and Bulgaria, and the 145th anniversary of the
14	14		12 liberation of Bulgaria; and
15	15		13 WHEREAS, The first Bulgarian emigrants to Illinois arrived
16	16		14 in the second half of the 19th century; and
17	17		15 WHEREAS, Granite City hosts the oldest Bulgarian American
18	18		16 community in the United States; and
19	19		17 WHEREAS, The prominent Bulgarian American banker, Henry
20		-	18 ~~Karandzhov~~, served as the president of the Granite City Trust
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21	21		19 and Savings Bank and as the president of the Masonic Temple
22	22		20 Association, receiving the title of Scoutmaster; and
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31	31		1 WHEREAS, The first Bulgarian emigrants to Chicago, who
32	32		2 began to arrive as early as the 1870s, were students sent by
33	33		3 American protestant missionaries for study in the United
34	34		4 States; and
35	35		5 WHEREAS, While most of these students returned to
36	36		6 Bulgaria, some remained and created a Bulgarian American
37	37		7 community in Illinois; and
38	38		8 WHEREAS, Bulgaria was admitted into and permitted to
39	39		9 display an exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in
40	40		10 Chicago, an event hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the first
41	41		11 diplomatic recognition accorded to Bulgaria as an independent
42	42		12 state; and
43	43		13 WHEREAS, Aleko Konstantinov, a famous Bulgarian writer,
44	44		14 recounted his journey to the World's Columbian Exposition in
45	45		15 Chicago in his book, To Chicago and Back, which became
46	46		16 instrumental in encouraging generations of Bulgarians to
47	47		17 emigrate to Chicago; and
48	48		18 WHEREAS, Tens of thousands of Bulgarians arrived in the
49	49		19 United States from the geographic region of Macedonia at the
50	50		20 beginning of the 20th century, pursuing freedom and fleeing
51	51		21 the devastation and horrors occasioned by regional unrest; and
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62	62		1 WHEREAS, The first Bulgarian Mission with its own priest
63	63		2 was established in Madison in 1907; and
64	64		3 WHEREAS, Madison is home to Illinois' oldest Bulgarian
65	65		4 Orthodox Church, Holy Trinity, built by Macedonian Bulgarians
66	66		5 with the current church building existing since 1910; and
67	67		6 WHEREAS, The Granite City Bulgarian community published
68	68		7 the first Bulgarian newspaper in the United States, the Vox
69	69		8 Populi, or Voice of the People, from 1907 to 1950; other
70	70		9 Bulgarians newspapers, such as the New World (1908-1909),
71	71		10 Emigrant (1909), Freedom (1914-1917), Macedonian Tribune
72	72		11 (1927-present), and others, followed in its wake; and
73	73		12 WHEREAS, Stoyan Yurukov became the first Bulgarian pilot
74	74		13 to fly in the skies above Chicago in 1912, charting the course
75	75		14 for many other Bulgarian pilots who have lived and worked in
76	76		15 the Windy City; and
77	77		16 WHEREAS, Bulgarian emigrants from the region of Macedonia
78	78		17 founded the Macedonian Patriotic Organization in 1922; the
79	79		18 organization continues to work for human, civil, and economic
80	80		19 rights of all individuals, regardless of ethnicity, who hail
81	81		20 from the geographic region; and
82	82		21 WHEREAS, Assen Hristov Jordanoff, a Bulgarian American
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93	93		1 engineer and pilot, emigrated to the United States after World
94	94		2 War I, becoming one of the fathers of civil aviation in the
95	95		3 United States; and
96	96		4 WHEREAS, The Macedonian Bulgarian Stoyan Christowe, a
97	97		5 journalist for the Chicago Daily News, wrote a book titled
98	98		6 This is My Country, a semi-autographical book about the
99	99		7 immigrants arriving in the United States from southeast Europe
100	100		8 at the beginning of the 20th century and a book found on the
101	101		9 bedside table of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the time
102	102		10 of his death; and
103	103		11 WHEREAS, John V. Atansoff, a Bulgarian American, created
104	104		12 the first automatic electronic digital computer in 1939, an
105	105		13 invention for which he was presented the National Medal for
106	106		14 Science and Technology by President George H. W. Bush in 1990;
107	107		15 and
108	108		16 WHEREAS, In the Spring of 1943, the Bulgarian people
109	109		17 resisted Nazi pressure to deport Bulgarian Jews to Nazi
110	110		18 concentration camps and, in doing so, rescued approximately
111	111		19 50,000 Bulgarian Jews from the worst terrors of the Nazi
112	112		20 regime; and
113	113		21 WHEREAS, The Bulgarian people acknowledge with sadness,
114	114		22 grief, and regret the deportation and confinement of over
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125	125		1 11,000 Jews from the Bulgarian administered Thracian and
126	126		2 Macedonian territories during the war; and
127	127		3 WHEREAS, With the conclusion of World War II, Bulgaria
128	128		4 fell victim to communism and was cut off from interaction and
129	129		5 intercourse with the free world by the Soviet government's
130	130		6 Iron Curtain, resulting in the expulsion and flight of some of
131	131		7 its most educated, knowledgeable, and prosperous citizens; and
132	132		8 WHEREAS, Illinois became a safe haven for many Bulgarian
133	133		9 political dissidents and refugees, fleeing from the repressive
134	134		10 terrors of communism; and
135	135		11 WHEREAS, Communism maintained its firm grip on Bulgaria,
136	136		12 holding the people captive, until the fall of the Berlin Wall
137	137		13 in 1989; and
138	138		14 WHEREAS, The fall of the Berlin Wall and the following
139	139		15 dissolution of the Soviet Union freed the Bulgarian people to
140	140		16 proclaim and institute a democratic and multiparty political
141	141		17 system; and
142	142		18 WHEREAS, Within 20 years of the fall of communism,
143	143		19 Bulgaria became a member of NATO and an integral part of the
144	144		20 European Union; and
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155	155		1 WHEREAS, Bulgaria, as a member of NATO, is a strategic
156	156		2 partner to the United States and a key ally in eastern Europe,
157	157		3 contributing to the stability of the Balkan Peninsula and
158	158		4 Black Sea region; and
159	159		5 WHEREAS, Bulgaria and the United States entered into the
160	160		6 U.S.-Bulgarian Defense Cooperation Agreement in 2006,
161	161		7 providing the U.S. military access to specified Bulgarian
162	162		8 military facilities, including the Novo Selo Training Area;
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164	164		10 WHEREAS, In 2020, the United States and Bulgaria signed a
165	165		11 10-year Roadmap for Defense Cooperation to foster increased
166	166		12 military cooperation and preparation; and
167	167		13 WHEREAS, The U.S. and Bulgarian militaries conduct
168	168		14 numerous military-to-military engagements, involving joint
169	169		15 training exercises and peer-to-peer engagements to enhance
170	170		16 interoperability and cooperation; and
171	171		17 WHEREAS, Bulgarian troops have stood alongside American
172	172		18 soldiers in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and
173	173		19 Bosnia and Herzegovina; and
174	174		20 WHEREAS, In 1960, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley
175	175		21 proclaimed March 3 (Bulgarian Liberation Day) as Bulgaria Day
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186	186		1 in Chicago, instituting an annual Bulgarian flag-raising
187	187		2 ceremony at Daley Plaza in Chicago that continues until this
188	188		3 day; and
189	189		4 WHEREAS, The Chicago metropolitan area is today considered
190	190		5 the home of the largest Bulgarian diaspora; and
191	191		6 WHEREAS, The two Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Churches in
192	192		7 the Chicago metropolitan area, St. Sophia (established in
193	193		8 1938) and St. John of Rila (established in 1996), along with
194	194		9 the Bulgarian Evangelical Church (New Life), serve as social
195	195		10 and religious centers, maintaining Bulgarian culture and
196	196		11 traditions; and
197	197		12 WHEREAS, Illinois is home to 13 Bulgarian Sunday Schools
198	198		13 that perpetuate Bulgarian language, culture, and history in
199	199		14 our communities; and
200	200		15 WHEREAS, Bulgarian Americans have greatly enriched the
201	201		16 cultural, technological, and civic life of Illinois,
202	202		17 contributing through their cultural centers, schools,
203	203		18 churches, dance groups, businesses, and other civic
204	204		19 organizations to the social, cultural, civil, and economic
205	205		20 development of the State of Illinois; therefore, be it
206	206		21 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
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217	217		1 HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
218	218		2 we send our warmest congratulations and best wishes to the
219	219		3 people of the Republic of Bulgaria as they celebrate the 145th
220	220		4 anniversary of their liberation on March 3, 2023; and be it
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222	222		6 RESOLVED, That we confirm the rich friendship that binds
223	223		7 our peoples together; and be it further
224	224		8 RESOLVED, That we declare March of 2023 as Bulgarian
225	225		9 American Heritage Month in the State of Illinois; and be it
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227	227		11 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
228	228		12 delivered to the Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria in
229	229		13 Chicago, President Joe Biden, and all members of the Illinois
230	230		14 Congressional Delegation.
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