ALTON, Ill — A Metro East park partially closed by the emergence of a massive sinkhole will receive about $4 million in improvements through the help of a federal loan guarantee.
Madison County, on behalf of the city of Alton, was awarded a $3.91 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for improvements and additions to the 704-acre Gordon Moore Park, a city park in Alton, according to a news release.
The improvements to be funded by the grant are unrelated to and predate the 100-foot-wide, 30-foot-deep sinkhole that swallowed part of a soccer field at Gordon Moore Park in June. No one was injured in that collapse of a mine that runs under the park, and most of the park reopened to visitors last month.
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