Waukegan mayor joins Great Lakes group:

Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham will join the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, a group of mayors and leaders from the U.S. and Canada on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River in their efforts to protect drinking water and build their economies on one of the most important sources of fresh water in the world. The initiative was created 15 years ago when the region was not receiving the support needed to protect the region's cities during an era of declining industrial growth. Since then, it has worked with Washington to build the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Fund, which has focused $300 million a year on projects from cleaning up legacy pollution to protection of the drinking water for more than 40 million people.