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FREEPORT, IL – Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17), Freeport Mayor Jodi Miller, and other local officials toured the newly constructed Freeport Well House and viewed the Adams Avenue Reconstruction project to highlight efforts to improve local infrastructure and expand clean drinking water access.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17), alongside Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17), introduced the Advancing Research on Agricultural Climate Impacts Act, bipartisan legislation to support farmers and combat extreme weather by better tracking farmers’ conservation efforts.
ROCK ISLAND, IL – Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) is announcing over $3.2 million in federal grant funding for Head Start education programs in Northwestern Illinois.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) applauded the inclusion of his priorities to help disabled veterans in a bill passed in the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.
ROCK ISLAND, IL – Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) secured the inclusion of $12.5 million in the FY2024 House Defense Appropriations Bill to support manufacturing jobs and develop new technologies in the Quad Cities area.
Bloomington-Normal has nearly $2.7 million in potential projects included in a U.S. House appropriations bill that has advanced from a subcommittee to the full appropriations committee.
U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen said the bill includes money for street upgrades in Normal, stormwater improvement in Uptown Normal, and the Locust-Colton storm and sanitary sewer separation project in Bloomington. Other area lawmakers have also put forward project funding for central Illinois.
FREEPORT, IL – Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) is announcing $1,654,296 in federal grant funding for Head Start education programs in Northwestern Illinois.
BLOOMINGTON — U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Rockford, announced the inclusion of roughly $4.6 million Central Illinois infrastructure projects into pending appropriations bills.
The six projects range from affordable housing, road infrastructure, sidewalk upgrades and clean drinking water for Central Illinois communities in two House appropriations bills for 2024, according to a news release.
ROCKFORD, IL – Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) applauded the inclusion of over $2.8 million to fund a police training facility in Winnebago County, upgrade the 8th Avenue Bridge in Rockford, and replace contaminated wells in Freeport in