More than $2M in Federal Dollars Earmarked for WIU - Western Illinois University - University Communications & Marketing
When President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act last week, thanks to the efforts of U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth and U.S. Representatives Cheri Bustos and Darin LaHood, Western Illinois University will receive approximately $2.6 million in federal funding for the creation of a new countywide Emergency Operations Center (EOC) through the WIU School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA), based on the WIU-Macomb campus, and for two Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA) initiatives, one of which is based at the WIU-Quad Cities campus.
Source: wiu.edu