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She'd seen posters promoting the D.C. trip, but Nicolette Geron thought she had to be in a specific class to be eligible to go.
When the Naperville Central High School senior found out the trek to the nation's capital for Inauguration Day was open to everybody, she jumped at the chance.
Newly sworn-in U.S. Rep. Bill Foster sees several problems facing the Fox Valley — a loss of manufacturing jobs, cuts in federal research money and Illinois' dwindling share of revenue from the federal government.
Speaking at the Naperville Chamber of Commerce's legislative luncheon Monday at the Hotel Arista, Foster characterized Illinois as a "donor state," and said, "That's not OK with me."
U.S. Rep. Bill Foster is launching the first of his planned mobile offices for the new 11th Congressional District.
The first location will be offered next week, Monday through Friday, at the Naperville Township Administration Building. The new 11th District serves parts of Naperville, Aurora, Plainfield and Joliet.
This is the first temporary office location Foster will open in the district. Permanent offices in Aurora and Joliet will be announced soon, Foster said.
The office wasn't quite in order yet. Then again, Bill Foster wasn't in office yet, either. Not quite.
"It's an interesting day of semi-organization around here," Foster said.
It was Wednesday morning, and Foster was talking on the phone from Washington, D.C., barely 24 hours before his official return to Capitol Hill. His surroundings were in "various states of disarray," he said — but some progress was evident.
"We have the computers, but no passwords to get into the computers," he said.