The property was placed to protect the integrity of the site from a highway project.
The highway project is a frequent topic of discussion among people in town.
They'd been in the village for only four or five years, while his father worked as an engineer on a highway project.
"It's never been done on a highway project before," he said.
The bill contains $27 million for a highway project in his district.
The state got $3.8 billion in return, which will pay, the governor said, for scores of highway projects.
Now the era of the big new public highway project is over, federal authorities say.
St. Charles was home to the first interstate highway project in the nation.
The road's condition has long been less of a blessing, a state the new highway project is changing.
Financial issues have played a major role throughout the life of the highway project, and they are likely to remain a dominant concern.