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Good news for Illinois cyclists

Gov. Rod Blagojevich today announced $600,000 in construction grants to Madison County, St. Clair County and the City of Madison through his Opportunity Returns program. These three grants from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources will support construction of regional bike trails, which will benefit local residents and increase tourism opportunities.

Madison County will receive a $200,000 Opportunity Returns grant. It will support construction of the “Schoolhouse Connecter” trail, which will join six Madison County bike trails together to form one united trail that will provide safe, world-class biking all across Madison County.

The City of Madison will receive a $200,000 grant to construct two miles of trail connecting Illinois Route 3 to the Confluence Bikeway and to the Chain of Rocks Bridge that crosses the Mississippi River and connects to the Riverfront Trail in Missouri.

The Village of Swansea, in St. Clair County, will also receive a $200,000 Opportunity Returns grant to construct more than one and a half miles of trail connecting with four miles of existing MetroLink bike trail and the City of Belleville’s two mile Richland Creek Greenway.

To see the full press release from Blagojevich's office, see:
http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=3&RecNum=2965.

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