Legislator: Southern Illinois thrown a ‘bone’ after federal spending bill provides disaster aid – Center Square

“I'm going to sound very partisan in this, but quite often under the Biden administration and the Pritzker administration, deep southern Illinois gets forgotten...” said state Sen. Terri Bryant. “That's a large agricultural area, and I think sometimes people think that if it's not a whole lot of buildings, it's not a whole lot of houses, that it's insignificant. But, you know, there are farmers that lost not just buildings, but vast areas of crop."