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Kirk Wants Fed Money for IL Infrastructure Improvements -- Especially for O'Hare
(IRN) -- It could be the year for infrastructure upgrades and improvements.

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (D-Ill.) believes the Obama administration will pump a lot of federal dollars into infrastructure in 2011. And he says he will work with other Illinois lawmakers to bring those dollars home.

"The key program that I look at is the O’Hare [Airport] modernization project," Kirk said. "Sen. [Dick] Durbin and I both agreed that was one of the top priorities for creating jobs in Illinois ."

Kirk believes the federal government should create public–private partnerships to ignite the ability to fund infrastructure projects. He points to Indiana, where those partnerships exist on a state level, as an example of a program that works.

As far as bringing in dollars to keep the O'Hare project moving forward, he says he will lobby other lawmakers to make O’Hare a priority.

"I would say that the O’Hare modernization project, even as a fiscal conservative I will tell you, is one of the highest yielding project for new jobs in Illinois and should receive the lion's share of our attention," Kirk said.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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