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Past Due: Homeowners Waiting On State Flooding Buyouts

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After the Mississippi River flooded four years ago, state and federal authorities offered buyouts to affected homeowners. Now the state budget impasse has left some of those deals in limbo.

Associated Press political reporter Sara Burnett covered the story. Illinois Issues editor Jamey Dunn talked with Burnett about her report.  You can read her story here. 

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