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OAK LAWN
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

HISTORY

Articles of Incorporation under the General Not for Profit Corporation
Act to Edward J. Barrett, Secretary of State, Springfield, Illinois were
signed by James E. Sweeney, Elmer R. Buell, Gladyce Brown, and Frank
K. Harris.

The name of the corporation is Oak Lawn Chamber of Commerce.
The period of duration of the corporation is Perpetual. The address of
the initial Registered Office in the State of Illinois is 9517 Cook, in the
Village of Oak Lawn, County of Cook.

The first Board of Directors shall be 6 in number, their names are
as follows:
Roland J. Beckley
Andrew Wolf
Arthur Eichler
Otto Brandt
Julius Jensen
Frank Sikora

The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized, are: to
promote and perpetuate the business, commercial, agricultural, industrial
and civic interests of the Greater Oak Lawn area, to promote integrity
and good faith; just and equitable principles in business, uniformity
in commercial usages; to acquire, preserve and distribute industrial,
commercial, agricultural and civic statistics and information of value,
to discover and correct abuses, and to have a part as representing our
village in the consideration and decision of city, state and national issues.

The Certificate of Incorporation and a copy of the Articles of Incorporation
were issued and signed by Edward J. Barrett, Secretary of the State of
Illinois on July 29, 1947.

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