Illinois shortchanged on lead money – Axios

Illinois has more lead water-service lines than any other state, but the formula used to allocate federal lead removal money fails to take that into account. Last year, Illinois received just $106 million of the $15 billion earmarked for lead removal in President Joe Biden's massive infrastructure bill.

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