Village's Blizzard Cleanup Cost: $42,000
With Illinois still not declared federal disaster area, reimbursement claims uncertain.
It was a rough couple of days. The blizzard of Feb. 1 and 2 caused residents untold hours off work and plenty of sore backs. It cost the village of Oswego about $42,000, according to Public Works Director Jerry Weaver. Whether the village will get any of that back in the form of federal disaster relief funds rests on the desk of President Barack Obama. All the municipalities throughout Kendall County spent a collective $197,000 on their snow-removal efforts. "I really don't know what will happen," said Joe Gillespie, Kendall County's Emergency Management Agency director. "It kind of depends on the president declaring the state a disaster area." Gillespie said the state sent a letter to Washington D.C., Tuesday asking for the designation. …
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