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http://www.post-trib.com/news/1994785,stim...na-0117.article

Michigan City: $9.9 million, 4 jobs

* Michigan City Area Schools: $7.7 million.

* Michigan City: $543,000.

* North Central Community Action Corp.: $455,000.

* Housing Authority of the City of Michigan City: $439,000.

* Community Organization of Social Concern: $151,000.

* Boys & Girls Club of Michigan City: $43,000.

The NICTD created 7 jobs with almost $14 million, but that number is supposed to increase to about 40 this year.

Outside school districts, the Northwest Indiana Commuter Transportation District received the largest amount of stimulus funding. The entity got $13.9 million to replace signals, control systems and signs for the South Shore train between Michigan City and South Bend. The overhead copper signal wires will be replaced with new modern signals linked by fiber-optic cable to a central location from which all train movements can be controlled.

John Parsons, spokesman for NICTD, said the project has created the equivalent of about seven full-time jobs. Once construction starts later this year, that number will increase to 35 to 40, he said. The project is expected to be completed in 2011.

Cities and towns received 14 percent of Northwest Indiana's stimulus funding, but none of them were among the top 10 recipients.