Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding uncertainty.

Anticipating a lack of federal funding under the new presidential administration, Illinois has postponed construction in a long-awaited $1.15 billion project to stop the movement of invasive carp up Illinois waterways and into Lake Michigan. A groundbreaking ceremony had originally been scheduled for Tuesday.

Anticipating a lack of federal funding under the new presidential administration, Illinois has postponed construction in a long-awaited $1.15 billion project to stop the movement of invasive carp up Illinois waterways and into Lake Michigan. A groundbreaking ceremony had originally been scheduled for today.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Natalie Phelps Finnie on Monday wrote in a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the state will be postponing a “property rights closing” on Tuesday,

The state of Illinois has pressed pause on a barrier designed to keep invasive carp from entering the Great Lakes, saying it can no longer count on the federal government to honor its funding obligation to the $1.

Deliberations continue at Madigan trial Jury deliberations are in their tenth day at the bribery and racketeering trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge John Robert Blakey said Monday he has no idea how long the jury will deliberate.