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        This bill was passed by the House 
        on Monday (Dec. 8) and is now awaiting Senate action.   
        City of Peoria: 
        1. $500,000 for Medical/Technical 
        District  
        2. $100,000 for Southern Gateway 
        Revitalization 
        3. $648,500 for sanitary sewer 
        infrastructure in Growth Cells 1 and 2  
        4. $200,000 for PeoriaNEXT to 
        provide training in bioscience and biotechnology  
         
        City of Springfield: 
        $350,000 for First Street sanitary sewer replacement  
        Greater Peoria Mass Transit 
        District:  $300,000 
        for new buses  
        Springfield Mass Transit District:  
        $300,000 for new buses  
        Village of Forsyth:  
        1. $500,000 for construction of new 
        water treatment plant 
        2. $200,000 for U.S. 51 frontage 
        road 
        City of Virginia: $500,000 
        for construction of a water treatment facility 
        City of Lincoln: $500,000 
        for upgrades to city wastewater treatment plant 
             
         
        Village of Washington: $401,500 
        for improvements to the School Street sanitary sewer 
        Village of Armington: $500,000 
        for construction of sanitary sewer 
      
       
        Village of Oreana: $250,000 
        for construction of water main and booster pumping station 
        City of Delavan: $350,000 
        for construction of new water service lines and storage tanks 
         
        Scott County and the village of 
        Winchester: $500,000 in 
        COPS technology funds  
        USDA Center for Agriculture 
        Utilization and Research, Peoria Ag Lab:
         
        1. $2.7 million for lab and 
        facility improvements 
        2. Continue important Illinois 
        agriculture research projects: $906,469 for the Animal Health Consortium 
        and $476,880 for crop production and food processing   
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        Biotechnology Research and 
        Development Corporation, Peoria: $3.6 
        million for research and development  
        University of Illinois, agriculture 
        research:  
        1. $450,000 for the Future Foods 
        initiative and to establish a World Food and Health Center 
        2. $760,000 for the Soybean Disease 
        Biotechnology Research Center 
        3. $1,085,000 for the 
        Illinois-Missouri Alliance for Biotechnology, a research initiative at 
        the universities of Illinois and Missouri 
        4. $675,000 for the Livestock 
        Genome Sequencing Initiative, to create an ordered map of large insert 
        DNA clones covering the entire DNA in major species of food animals 
        OSF St. Francis, Peoria, rapid 
        treatment:  
        $900,000 for expansion and renovation of emergency department 
         
        Proctor Hospital, Peoria:
         
        1. $550,000 for hospital expansion 
        2. $250,000 for gambling addiction 
        program  
       
        Memorial Medical Center, 
        Springfield: $550,000 
        for equipment for the nursing training and education center  
        Culbertson Memorial Hospital, 
        Rushville: $200,000 for 
        construction of occupational health facility  
        SIU School of Medicine, 
        Springfield: $150,000 
        for equipment for Cancer Institute 
        10/33 Ambulance Service, Spring 
        Valley: $75,000 for updated defibrillator and computer equipment
         
        Center for Prevention of Abuse, 
        Peoria: $150,000 for 
        continued construction of new facility  
        Tazewell-Woodford Head Start: $100,000 
        for continued construction of new facility 
            [News release from
            Rep. Ray LaHood,18th Congressional District]
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