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Approximately one hundred people joined Governor Pat Quinn today at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center for the signing of House Bill 6059. The Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission Act, as the bill is known, creates an 18-member commission to increase public awareness of the Holocaust and other genocides through educational programs, events and outreach efforts.