IL HJR0100

Designates IL Route 29 in Pekin (8th Street) from Kennedy Drive to Edgewater Drive as the "Carol Shields Memorial Highway"

Honors Carol Shields, a longtime Pekin community leader who served as executive director of the Pekin Area Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2001

Recognizes her extensive volunteer work including serving as chair of the Pekin Hospital Board of Directors, founding member of the Pekin Transportation Committee, and Cincinnati Township Trustee

Notes she was elected Illinois REALTORS President in 1996, becoming the fourth woman to hold the position since the association's founding in 1916

Requests the Illinois Department of Transportation erect appropriate plaques or signs along the designated route