THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE STORY BY JERRY NOWICKI
ABOVE: Rep. Carol Ammons on the House floor in Springfield on Thursday.
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers have approved a bill to dedicate a bridge in the Kickapoo State Recreation area in honor of the late state Sen. Scott Bennett.
Bennett, a Champaign Democrat, served in the Illinois Senate from January 2015 until his death from complications of a brain tumor on Dec. 9, 2022. He left behind a wife and two children.
State Rep. Carol Ammons, D-Urbana, said Bennett was well known for working across the aisle, and the pair worked together regularly. She sponsored the bill in his honor.
Scott Bennett
The bill — which needs only a signature from the governor to become law — designates the railroad trestle bridge that is part of the Kickapoo Rail Trail at Kickapoo State Recreation Area in Vermilion County as the Senator Scott Bennett Memorial Bridge.
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