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Governor of Illinois Honors President Fern\u00e1ndez D<\/SPAN>ominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez was honored last Friday by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn \u201cfor his political, social and educational leadership in addition to his contribution to the integration and development of the people.\u201d<\/P> The governor pointed to one of the projects that he, as governor, promoted which is the sisterhood of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo and the Chicago River which seeks to clean up the pollution and eventually make them both potable for humans.<\/P> At the event, held at the University of Chicago, Quinn pointed to the advances that have taken place in the Dominican Republic during the administrations of President Fern\u00e1ndez, \u201cin the areas of economics as well as aspects related to the quality of life of the country\u2019s citizens,\u201d according to the Presidential Office of Information, Press and Publicity. <\/P> The governor pointed to one of the projects that he, as governor, promoted which is the sisterhood of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo and the Chicago River which seeks to clean up the pollution and eventually make them both potable for humans. There is also the economic resurgence of the shores, using Chicago as a model city. <\/P> He also pointed out the common interests of the State of Illinois and the Dominican Republic beginning with their shared love of sports as well as their passion and effort to progress and move forward each day. The event was headed by Governor Pat Quinn, John Cullerton, President of the Senate; Paula Allen-Meares, Vice Rector of the University of Illinois; Dominican First Lady, Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez; Eddy Mart\u00ednez, Secretary of State, Director of the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic and Gisselle Castillo, Consul General of the Dominican Republic in Chicago.<\/P> Congress people, academics, business people and members of the Latin America diplomatic corps in Illinois were also at the ceremony. Meeting with the Mayor <\/STRONG><\/P> In the morning, President Fern\u00e1ndez and the First Lady met with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his wife Maggie Daley at the Mayor\u2019s office in the center of Chicago.<\/P> Fern\u00e1ndez and Daley spoke about, among other things, their mutual interest and the strong commercial, academic and cultural links between Chicago and the Dominican Republic.<\/P> Governor of Illinois Honors President Fern\u00e1ndez Chicago, Illinois 05\/10\/2010 Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez was honored last Friday by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn \u201cfor his political, social and educational leadership in addition to his contribution to the integration and development of the people.\u201d The governor pointed to one of the projects that he, as governor, promoted … Continue reading “Governor of Illinois Honors President Fern\u00e1ndez”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Fern\u00e1ndez, in thanking the governor for the recognition, promised that his government will increase the participation of young Dominicans at the University of Chicago in addition to increasing the teacher exchanges from both countries as part of the process of academic transformation and global investment in the Dominican Republic.<\/P>
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