Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: A bipartisan group of Iowa and Illinois lawmakers is calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize funding included in the recently passed federal infrastructure bill to finally rebuild river locks and dams. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, joined Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and U.S. Reps. Cheri Bustos, D-Moline, and Ashley Hinson, R-Marion, in writing a letter calling on the Corps of Engineers to prioritize funding of lock and dam upgrades on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers utilizing $2.5 billion set aside for inland waterways provided in the new infrastructure bill.