IL HJR0048

Designates Illinois Route 131 from the state line south to Illinois Route 173 as the "Lance Corporal Russell Rowe Memorial Highway"

Honors Lance Corporal Russell Rowe, a U.S. Marine born October 7, 1944, who graduated from Steinmetz High School in Chicago in 1961 and enlisted in the Marine Corps

Lance Corporal Rowe served in 1st Company B, 6th Marine Division during the 1965 Dominican Republic intervention and was wounded in a machine-gun ambush on April 30, 1965

Rowe died on June 19, 1965, at Walter Reed Army Hospital from complications related to his combat injuries, and was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart

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