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Last week, Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) joined leaders from the Grand Prairie Water Commission (GPWC) to announce $3.45 million in federal funding, which will help the Commission bring an alternative water source to the region. Foster requested and secured the funds as Community Project Funding in the federal spending bill for Fiscal Year 2023. The funding will be used for infrastructure development costs as the commission, currently in formation, undertakes the work necessary to use Lake Michigan as its new water source.
New legislation would allow 403(b) plans to invest in collective investment trusts (CITs) and unregistered insurance company separate accounts.
H.R. 3063, the Retirement Fairness for Charities and Educational Institutions Act of 2023, has four primary sponsors: Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla.; Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky.; Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., and Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.
Aurora University received $955,000 in federal funding to create an Emerging Technologies Learning Lab that will bring to life new learning experiences for students across all disciplines.
The funds, which were secured with the assistance of U.S. Congressman Bill Foster, will be used to purchase new technology and equipment to enhance experiential learning opportunities for students and better prepare them for the workforce.
On April 13, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory celebrated three important construction milestones designed to increase the lab’s research efficiencies and capabilities and continue progress on the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory celebrated three important construction milestones yesterday that will increase the lab’s research efficiencies and capabilities. In attendance at the “Building Fermilab’s Future” ceremony in Batavia were representatives from the DOE Office of Science, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and local officials, including U.S. Reps. Sean Casten and Bill Foster, and national and international partners and collaborators.
Gov. Pritzker and other local legislators joined DOE officials at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, for the opening of two new buildings and the groundbreaking of another to usher in a new era of science.
The Fox Valley Park District will get $4 million in federal funds to build a bridge linking bike paths on both sides of the Fox River.
The money will go to a bike and pedestrian bridge in Lippold Park, in Batavia along the East Bank of the river, to connect with the bike and pedestrian path along the West Bank of the river.
The money is from the federal Community Funding Project, and was secured by the office of U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-Naperville. It was one of 15 projects funded through Foster’s office - the entire 15 that his office proposed.
The Fox Valley Park District and our Board of Commissioners remain committed to trail connectivity with the end goal of linking cyclists and pedestrians from Points A to B – throughout the District’s 48-mile network – without the need for dismount or detour. Thanks to Congressman Bill Foster and his office’s advocacy of this ongoing initiative, a significant gap will be bridged (quite literally) to connect two sections of the popular Fox River Trail in North Aurora.
A bipartisan group of five federal lawmakers from Illinois is calling on the Biden administration’s top ag trade officials to bring a formal challenge against Mexico for its ban on imports of genetically engineered corn grown in the U.S.
In a letter sent March 1 to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Katherine Tai and USTR Chief Agricultural Negotiator Doug McKalip, the lawmakers detailed how the ban would impact Illinois farmers if the Biden administration fails to act on it via the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
City officials, victims' families and community members gathered Wednesday to mark the fourth anniversary of the Henry Pratt workplace shooting in suburban Aurora, which left five individuals dead.
"I don’t want families to continue to go through what I’m going through. Four years later, the pain is still there," said Diana Juarez, the daughter of victim Vicente Juarez.