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Obama Declares Chicago Disaster Area Post-Blizzaster

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 18, 2011 1:30PM

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Looks like the letter Gov. Quinn wrote to President Obama earlier this month to declare Illinois a federal disaster area in the wake of February's blizzard was persuasive. That's exactly what Obama did yesterday. Well, parts of the state at least.

Obama declared Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane and McHenry counties disaster areas for the Blizzaster. That means federal funding is now available to state and local authorities and some non-profits for emergency repairs of buildings and infrastructure damaged by the storm. That's a lot of pothole money, people.