Governor sends $1 million to wrong place

Governor: $1M went to ‘wrong place’

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

CHICAGO — Gov. Rod Blagojevich is giving $1 million to the historic Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago because the initial $1 million grant he pledged to the burned out church mistakenly went somewhere else.

Blagojevich says the first $1 million went to a preschool that had been using space at the church before it was destroyed in a 2006 fire.

He says that money went to “the wrong place.”

His latest grant comes from available capital money he doesn’t think has been earmarked for other purposes.

Blagojevich says lawmakers don’t need to approve the move.