The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $11.5 million in individual assistance to residents of Calumet City and the south suburbs who were hit by flooding in September.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has already given out $9.6 million in recovery assistance in the two weeks since President Joe Biden approved a disaster declaration to help Illinois residents affected by flooding from heavy rains in mid-September. Biden’s announcement allowed for FEMA’s return to the state one month after the agency left to wrap up its response to the flooding from .
The opening of a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center marks a significant step towards aiding the affected communities, with the first center having opened on Friday, Dec. 1.