IL HJR0042

Designates Old U.S. Route 36 from Jacksonville to Alexander as the "Special Agent Pete Lackey Memorial Highway"

Honors Illinois State Police Special Agent Pete Earl Lackey of Winchester, who was killed in the line of duty on November 27, 1972, while en route to testify at a drug trial in Springfield

Special Agent Lackey was attacked by the defendant in the case, who rammed his car and stabbed him with a hunting knife; the attacker was acquitted at trial but admitted to the crime in a 1981 newspaper interview

Lackey had served two years with the Illinois Bureau of Investigation and was previously a physical education teacher and coach at Winchester High School; he was survived by his wife and two children

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