The Second ABATE of Illinois Corporation

This section will be revised and updated periodically as I look back through
my archives.- Jim "Pure Pork" Dean

The first ABATE of Illinois was allowed to become defunct (by the charter holders) due to non-filing of the yearly report to the Secretary of State in March of 1985.

There was a second ABATE of Illinois incorporated in April 1986, by Dave Rosen, of the Aurora, IL area. He saw that no one was using the ABATE of IL name and had filed on it. He used the ABATE name acronym of "Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education." There were several individual ABATE corporations formed throughout the state in the different locations where motorcycle rights were important.

At a meeting in Aurora, IL, on November 15 of 1986, the name of ABATE of IL was turned over to a group of independent ABATE representatives by Dave Rosen. The second ABATE of IL was used until June of 1987, when it was replaced by the third version of ABATE of IL, chartered by the Secretary of State on June 5, 1987. The stated purpose of the corporation was not in line with what was needed and it is sometimes easier to kill the corporation and refile, than to make an amendment to the purpose statement in the articles of incorporation.

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