WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Hyde Park, IL - U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced the approval of $1,525,250 in federal funding for projects in Chicago. This funding allocation is part of the Fiscal Year 2024 government appropriations package. Rep. Kelly secured investments for the following projects: $500,000 is allocated for the Chicago Park District as part of its Jackson Park Historic Burnham Building Restoration P more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Danville, IL- U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced the approval of $1,890,000 in federal funding for community projects in East Central Illinois. Rep. Kelly secured this funding allocation as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 government appropriations package. Rep. Kelly secured investments for the following projects: $850,000 is allocated for the City of Danville for its revitalization of the ci more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Bradley, IL - U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced the approval of $4,116,279 for economic development in Kankakee County. Rep. Kelly secured this funding allocation as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 government appropriations package. This fundingwill go to the Area Jobs Development Association Inc.as part of its David Bradley Industrial Park Incubator Rehabilitation Project. This project will m more PR

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Matteson, IL - U.S. Representative Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced the approval of $6,905,444 in federal funding for projects in Chicago's South Suburbs. Rep. Kelly secured this funding allocation is part of the Fiscal Year 2024 government appropriations package. Rep. Kelly secured investments for the following projects: $2,500,000 is allocated for the Army Corps of Engineers to provide technical planning more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 29 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a group of eleven Senate Democrats in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Colette Peters requesting more information on their efforts to promote voting access for incarcerated people in federal prisons. In addition  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: ROCKFORD, IL - Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) released the following statement on the death of Auburn High School student Jason Jenkins, an 18-year-old Walmart employee that was murdered while working at a store in Rockford. "Jason Jenkins should be here today," said Sorensen. "On Sunday night while working his shift at a Walmart in Rockford, he was stabbed out of the blue. Bystanders jumped to his si more PR