*_RESOLUTION_*
*Sponsored by*
*THE HONORABLE JOHN P. DALEY, PRESIDENT JOHN H. STROGER, JR.*
*AND TED LECHOWICZ, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS*
*Co-Sponsored by*
*THE HONORABLE JERRY BUTLER, ALLAN C. CARR, EARLEAN COLLINS,*
*GREGG GOSLIN, CARL R. HANSEN, ROBERTO MALDONADO,*
*WILLIAM R. MORAN, JOSEPH MARIO MORENO, MIKE QUIGLEY,*
*HERBERT T. SCHUMANN, JR., PETER N. SILVESTRI, DEBORAH SIMS,*
*BOBBIE L. STEELE AND CALVIN R. SUTKER, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS*
*WHEREAS* *Lee Lumber* and Building Materials will celebrate 50 years in business on Thursday, June 6, 2002, and
*WHEREAS* *Lee Lumber* and Building Materials was founded on its present site at 633 West Pershing Road, in a simple storefront surrounded by a white picket fence and a small materials yard, and
*WHEREAS* from those humble beginnings back in 1952, *Lee Lumber* and Building Materials has flourished and grown into a major regional supplier for contractors, builders, and homeowners throughout Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana, and
*WHEREAS* the great success of *Lee Lumber* and Building Materials in Chicago allowed the opening of a second lumber yard at 3250 North Kedzie in 1988 and a downtown showroom, along with facilities in Highland Park and Merrillville, Indiana, and
*WHEREAS* as Chicago has grown and built even greater structures, *Lee Lumber* has been instrumental in all, providing construction materials for such notable projects as McCormick Place, Navy Pier, Comiskey Park, Wrigley Field, the Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry, and
*WHEREAS* over the years and throughout many changes, *Lee Lumber* has remained faithful to the vision and philosophy of its founder, Lee Baumgarten, under whose leadership and guidance the company not only succeeded as a commercial enterprise, but as a greatly valued and widely respected member of the community, now therefore
*BE IT RESOLVED* that the Board of Commissioners of Cook County does hereby congratulate *Lee Lumber* and Building Materials on its 50th Anniversary, and pays tribute to the nearly 150 present day employees, and the hundreds past, who have built the company into the successful and respected operation it is today, and
*BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED* that this text be spread upon the Official Proceedings of this Honorable Body, and a suitable copy of same be tendered to the President of *Lee Lumber* and Building Materials in commemoration of this occasion and in grateful acknowledgment of the important contributions to the economy of Cook County purveyed by *Lee Lumber* and Building Materials in the course of its business.
Approved and adopted this 23rd day of April 2002.
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* JOHN H. STROGER, JR.*, President
Cook County Board of Commissioners
(S E A L)
Attest: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
*DAVID ORR*, County Clerk
