Township seeking financial assistance from city

CHAMPAIGN – City of Champaign Township is asking the city for financial help to restore general assistance benefits to the previous levels, before they were slashed to $100 per month on Feb. 1.

But Champaign City Council members, with one exception, seemed cool to the idea of a city subsidy of the township's welfare program.

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