By Jeremy Coumbes on February 24, 2021 at 10:29am
Area municipalities currently struggling in the wake of the natural gas crisis have some help on the way, with more to possibly follow.
Governor J.B. Pritzker has called on the Illinois Finance Authority to create a $15 million low-interest loan program to assist municipalities across central and southern Illinois.
Speaking at the Illinois Emergency Management Agency today, Pritzker was joined by the Mayor of Roodhouse Thomas Martin, and 50
th District State Senator Steve McClure along with a host of other central Illinois leaders to announce the new program.
Pritzker says “Illinois will use every lever of state government to support all our communities” after “catastrophic pricing surges” are now “demanding an unbearable financial sacrifice from small municipalities and their residents.”