Village of Glenwood receives $1M federal flood-relief grant

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded more than $1 million to the city of Glenwood so it can demolish homes on a floodplain in the south suburb.

The agency, managed under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has released to the town $1,050,990 in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds, according to a release from FEMA issued March 20…Please click here to read Reema Amin’s story in the Sun-Times.