From the Alton Telegraph: "Lawmakers save Illinois 255 funding," by Sanford Schmidt--
Two area legislators got a healthy round of applause Friday from a business group after telling a somewhat harrowing tale of how they rescued nearly $20 million in Illinois 255 construction money from the state bureaucratic scrap heap.
Speaking to the Legislative Committee of the Growth Association of Southwestern Illinois, state Rep. Dan Beiser said that only $500,000 was in this session’s budget for the ongoing link between the area and the interstate highway system. But he said he and state Sen. WilliamHaine prevailed upon the administration to come up with $19.9 million.
--Posted by St. Louis Missouri accident lawyer T. Evan Schaeffer of the St. Louis Missouri personal injury law firm of Schaeffer & Lamere, P.C.
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