Office of the City Clerk - Record #: R2022-690

• Record #: R2022-690
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 7/20/2022
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Health and Human Relations
• Final action: 5/24/2023
• Title: Commemoration of formation of Chicago City Council Taiwan Friendship Caucus
• Sponsors: Reilly, Brendan, Waguespack, Scott, Rodriguez, Michael D., Sigcho-Lopez, Byron, Curtis, Derrick G.
• Topic: CITY COUNCIL - Miscellaneous
• Related files: R2023-766

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/24/2023		City Council	Failed to Pass
7/20/2022	51249	City Council	Referred

Chicago City Council Taiwan Friendship Caucus


WHEREAS, On July 20, 2022, Alderman Brendan Reilly and Alderman Scott Waguespack, as co-chairs, established the Chicago City Council Taiwan Friendship' Caucus; and

WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council Taiwan Friendship Caucus is initiated during the tenure of Johnson Chiang, director general of Taiwan's Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago; and
WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council will be the first City Council in the U.S. Midwest to establish a Taiwan Friendship Caucus, and the caucus has bipartisan and multi-caucus support; and
WHEREAS, Taiwan shares the same values of freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law, peace, and prosperity with the United States and the City of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council Taiwan Friendship Caucus will further the bilateral relationship with Taiwan and will continue to affirm and support Taiwan's meaningful participation in international organizations; and
WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council Taiwan Friendship Caucus reaffirms the commitment to strengthening and deepening the cordial ties between the City of Chicago and Taiwan; now therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and members of the City Council of the City of Chicago, gathered here this twentieth day of July, 2022, commemorate the formation of the Chicago City Council Taiwan Friendship Caucus; and
BRENDAN REILLY
Alderman, 42ricl Ward

SCOTT E. WAGUESPACK
Alderman, 32nd Ward
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to Director General Johnson Chiang of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago.


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