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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
RECOGONIZING IXTAPA-ZIHUATANEJO SISTER CITY DELEGATION
WHEREAS, as part of the Sister City International application process a delegation will typically visit their prospective sister city, and
WHEREAS, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo will become Sister Cities with the Village of Bensenville, as part of their trip the delegation will be touring Cook County and the City of Chicago, and
WHEREAS, Sister Cities International was created at President Eisenhower's 1956 White House conference on citizen diplomacy; and
WHEREAS, Sister Cities International creates relationships based on cultural, educational, information and trade exchanges, creating lifelong friendships that provide prosperity and peace through person to person "citizen diplomacy", and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the President and the Board of Commissioners of Cook County do hereby recognize the Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo delegation efforts to join Sister Cities International and wish them well on their travels in the Chicagoland area; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a suitable copy of this resolution be tendered to the Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo delegation.
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