 Quinn appeared at a rally Tuesday at the Chicago campus of the
University of Illinois.Funding to the Monetary Award Program, or
MAP, was slashed in budget cuts.
The state's largest financial aid program helps around 200,000
Illinois students pay for college. But the program doesn't have the
money to fund students in the second half of the 2009-2010 academic
year.
The program contributes almost $400 million to Illinois students
each year.
Top legislative leaders have vowed to focus on ways to restore
the funding and have said it'll be at the top of the agenda for a
veto session next month.
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