CHENOA – U.S. Agriculture Department Secretary Sonny Perdue’s five-state “Back to our Roots” RV tour plans to visit Chenoa next week.

It’s one of three stops planned in Illinois on Monday. Perdue will join Illinois Department of Agriculture Director Raymond Poe Monday morning in Rochester to talk about the federal farm bill.

Perdue then planned a stop in Chenoa to hold a roundtable discussion at the Evergreen FS plant at 3 p.m.

Perdue will also make a visit to Georgetown in Vermillion County before heading to Indiana.

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