7am News, Sports and Obits

Latest WGIL news
Click to play or
Right click and "Save Target As" to download
Click for Galesburg, Illinois Forecast
Home - Cancellations - Community Events - Contact Us - Mornings - News - Obituaries - Pictures - Programs - Special Events Audio - Sports - Weather
Quinn Announces School Construction Funding -- Knoxville Receiving $20 Million
HAZEL CREST, Ill. (AP) -- More than two dozen Illinois school districts will get around $623 million in capital funds to update and repair schools.

Gov. Pat Quinn announced the money Thursday at an elementary school in Hazel Crest, a suburb south of Chicago.

Quinn says the funding will help improve students' educational experiences.

State officials approved 31 districts for the funding. The districts' proposed projects had to be approved.

The funding includes about $114 million for Chicago Public Schools, and about $34 million for Peoria schools.

The Knoxville School District will receive a little more than $20 million for a new Knoxville High School building the district has been planning. More in an interview with Superintendent Steve Wilder Friday morning on WGIL.

The Stark County School District will receive over $3.5 million.

(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. WGIL News contributed to this report.)
02 16 12 by Newsroom
News management powered by Xpression News

Click here for the WGIL News Archive

Click here for national news

The following provision applies to all visitors (which shall include persons and representatives of legal entities, whether such representatives are persons or digital engines of a kind that crawls, indexes, scrapes, copies, stores or transmits digital content). By accessing this Web site or digital service, you specifically acknowledge and agree that: (i) Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium; (ii) No Associated Press materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use; (iii) The Associated Press will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing; (iv) The Associated Press is an intended third party beneficiary of these terms and conditions and it may exercise all rights and remedies available to it; and (v) The Associated Press reserves the right to audit possible unauthorized commercial use of AP materials or any portion thereof at any time.