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HR0160 • 2026
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Resolution Adopted
Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee ; 003-002-000
Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions
Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
Recommends Be Adopted Appropriations-Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee ; 008-000-000
Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions
Assigned to Appropriations-Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee
Referred to Rules Committee
Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Katie Stuart
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Full Text of HR0160 Home Legislation Full Text HR0160 - 104th General Assembly Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Select Menu Bill Status Full Text Votes Witness Slips Printer Friendly Version Introduced Printer Friendly Version Introduced Open PDF HR0160 LRB104 12445 MST 22768 r 1 HOUSE RESOLUTION 2 WHEREAS, From 1877 to 2002, the State of Illinois operated 3 a large residential facility for developmentally disabled 4 children and adults in the City of Lincoln, known first as The 5 Illinois Asylum for Feeble Minded Children and later renamed 6 the Lincoln State School and Colony, the Lincoln State School, 7 and finally, the Lincoln Developmental Center; and 8 WHEREAS, The Lincoln Developmental Center was located on a 9 sprawling campus, resembling a miniature city, and housed 10 thousands of residents and contained its own power plant, 11 kitchen, bakery, sewing rooms, laundry facility, hospital, 12 nursing school, fire department, jail, and farm, as well as 13 other industrial shops; and 14 WHEREAS, The Lincoln Developmental Center also contained a 15 cemetery that housed the remains of deceased patients who had 16 lived at the facility when their families could not be located 17 or were indigent; and 18 WHEREAS, The State opened the Logan Correctional Center, a 19 women's prison, adjacent to the Lincoln Developmental Center 20 in 1978 and opened the Lincoln Correctional Center, a men's 21 prison, on the same grounds in 1984; and HR0160 - 2 - LRB104 12445 MST 22768 r 1 WHEREAS, After the closure of the Lincoln Developmental 2 Center in 2002, the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) 3 became responsible for managing the Lincoln Developmental 4 Center cemetery; and 5 WHEREAS, With the erection of correctional facilities near 6 the cemetery and management of the cemetery becoming IDOC's 7 responsibility, it became difficult for family members, 8 relatives, and friends of those interred at the cemetery to 9 visit their loved ones, care for their gravesites, and pay 10 their respects; and 11 WHEREAS, No clear process exists for members of the public 12 to visit their deceased loved ones interred at the Lincoln 13 Developmental Center cemetery, including no public guidelines 14 for families to follow and no public information on who is 15 responsible for managing such visits at IDOC for families to 16 contact; therefore, be it 17 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE 18 HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that 19 we urge the Illinois Department of Corrections to develop a 20 standard policy/set of guidelines that are public for those 21 who wish to visit gravesites of loved ones including, but not 22 limited to, familial relations and researchers; and be it 23 further HR0160 - 3 - LRB104 12445 MST 22768 r 1 RESOLVED, That we urge the Illinois Department of 2 Corrections to consider ease of access to the public for this 3 cemetery during renovations or rebuilding of IDOC facilities 4 at this site; and be it further 5 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 6 delivered to the Director of the Illinois Department of 7 Corrections. 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