Illinois HR 895: MEMORIAL-JAMES ADDINGTON

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HR0895LRB104 21709 MST 37319 r

1HOUSE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, Standing between First and Fourth Streets on the 

3University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, Memorial 

4Stadium, dedicated in 1924, is a structure revered for its 

5Classic Revival architectural style and for its historical 

6significance both to the University and to the State of 

7Illinois; and

8 WHEREAS, As the stadium committee charged with building 

9the structure wished to build a memorial for the people of 

10Illinois who served, were wounded, and died during World War 

11I, George Huff assembled a group of active and interested 

12alumni in November 1921 that presented a formal request to the 

13Illinois Department of the American Legion for the stadium to 

14be officially recognized as a state memorial; and

15 WHEREAS, After making the request, the stadium committee, 

16the Board of Trustees, the Alumni Association, and the 

17Athletic Association formally began the campaign to build the 

18stadium, which was constructed between 1923 and 1924 and was 

19dedicated as the University of Illinois' Memorial Stadium on 

20October 28, 1924; and

21 WHEREAS, At the October 1924 dedication ceremony, the 

22president of the University of Illinois, David Kinley, said 

HR0895- 2 -LRB104 21709 MST 37319 r

1that "This stadium is a memorial to those of the University who 

2died in the World War. We cannot hallow it by our words, but 

3they have hallowed it by their deaths in defense of ideals and 

4principles in which they believed… The uses to which this 

5great structure are put must be uses which exemplify those 

6principles"; and

7 WHEREAS, Those words were a promise to those Illini who 

8gave the ultimate sacrifice in the springtime of the