Jamie Munks
The State Journal-Register
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The council also OK’d an ordinance accepting a grant from the state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for $424,266 that requires a local match. The money is through the Local Tourism and Convention Bureau Grant program, and Ward 7 Ald. Joe McMenamin suggested some of it could go toward the planned 2015 Abraham Lincoln funeral re-enactment in Springfield.
Joe McMenamin for Ward 7 