February 5th is Adlai Stevenson Day

Senator Roberto Arango 

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich declared Feb. 5, 2008, to be Adlai E. Stevenson II Day as a result of the students' efforts. 

Adlai Stevenson II was born in Los Angeles in 1900, but he was raised in Bloomington, Il.

He served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953. He ran two unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. president as the Democratic nominee against Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956, and served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.