$5.1 million earmarked from stimulus package

Champaign County will get $5.1 million from the first federal stimulus package, final figures from the Illinois Department of Transportation show.

The package, formally called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, provides $4.1 million for Champaign-Urbana, about $400,000 for Rantoul and about $600,000 for various rural county projects.

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