(Hillsboro)--The Illinois Emergency Management Agency has awarded four million dollars in grants that will held 120 city and county emergency management agencies throughout the state to support local disaster preparedness efforts.

The Emergency Management Performance Grants are funded through a grant that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency receives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The funds can be used for day to day operations of local emergency management programs.

Locally, Montgomery County received over twenty one thousand dollars; Macoupin County received over twenty five thousand dollars; Christian County received seventy five hundred dollars; Fayette County received seventeen thousand dollars; and Sangamon County received fifty five thousand dollars.