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Committee advances multiple road‑naming resolutions honoring fallen service members and a coach
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The Homeland Security and Transportation Committee unanimously advanced four road‑naming resolutions to honor local service members and coach Bob Knight, with sponsors describing each honoree’s service and family ties during brief, uncontested presentations.
The Homeland Security and Transportation Committee on Thursday advanced a series of road‑naming resolutions honoring law‑enforcement officers, military veterans and a university coach.
Representative Bailifford asked the committee to rename a bridge over the Kankakee River for Corporal Schreiber, a Newton County deputy killed in the line of duty in September 2024; Bailifford noted Schreiber left behind a widow and two children. Representative Althoff urged approval of a resolution to designate a portion of Route 30 in Maryville the Sergeant William Gilbert Patterson Memorial Mile, recounting Patterson’s 1994 line‑of‑duty death and his long service in Lake County. A third resolution would name a stretch of State Road 237 near Perry County Memorial Hospital the Sergeant Heather J. Glenn Memorial Highway; the sponsor described Glenn’s 20 years of service and her death during an arrest attempt on July 3, 2023. Finally, ACR 4 would name two bridges in Lawrenceburg for Vietnam veterans Larry Fogle and Thomas G. Denning; PG Gentry, a classmate and Vietnam veteran, testified to their service and sacrifice.
Committee members did not take public testimony beyond a family friend and veterans who supported the Lawrenceburg renamings. Each resolution was moved, seconded and advanced by voice or roll call; the transcript records the votes on these measures as passing in the committee (each recorded in the transcript as "Passes 60").
The measures now move to the next step in the legislative process for enactment and implementation by the relevant state transportation authorities.
