grants

2021 grant recipients announced: $40K to downtown businesses

Aurora Downtown approved small business grants totaling nearly $40,000 this week. The announcement serves as a bellwether that downtown businesses…

4 years ago

Southern Illinois Professor Indicted for Grant Fraud

CARBONDALE,  Ill.  –  A  mathematics  professor  and  researcher  at  Southern  Illinois University  – Carbondale (SIUC) is  under federal indictment for…

4 years ago

City of Joliet selected to receive Canadian National-America in Bloom Grant

The City of Joliet has been selected to receive a $25,000 Community Greening Project Grant from Canadian National Railway through…

4 years ago

Small Businesses to be supported with Big Grants

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has gone big with grants to small businesses hurt in the pandemic. He announced the first…

4 years ago

$250 Million in Infrastructure Grants Announced

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Transportation announced the second of six $250 million grants. The grants…

4 years ago

Nine NWIL Non-Profits Receive $60,000 Fund Grants

The Community Foundation of Northern Illinois (CFNIL) and the Freeport Community Foundation (FCF) have announced today that they partnered to…

4 years ago

ENVISION Grant recipients announced by Chicago Artists Coalition

The 2020 ENVISION Grant program was for the artists based in Chicago working in the field of time-based digital and…

4 years ago

ASTC selects IMSS for Grant Support amid COVID-19 Pandemic

International Museum of Surgical Science wins highly competitive grant to support STEM engagement during COVID-19 Pandemic. The IMSS is part…

4 years ago

$8.4 Million awarded to address COVID-19

United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, John R. Lausch, Jr. announced today that, over the past several…

4 years ago

DoJ provides over $1M Grants to local law enforcement

U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft has announced that the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring…

4 years ago

Freeport Community Foundation Awards Grants

The Freeport Community Foundation (FCF) Board of Directors has awarded 8 grants. The grants total $52,067.93 to eight regional non-profit…

4 years ago

Northern Illinois’ State and Local Government Entities Receive more than $20 Million

United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, John R. Lausch, Jr., has announced today that to combat the…

5 years ago

Special Service Area #One businesses get COVID-19 Relief Fund grants

Aurora Downtown is offering the COVID-19 Relief Fund grants to the businesses located in the Special Service Area (SSA) #One.…

5 years ago

2020 Individual Artists Program grants recipients announced

The recipients of the 2020 Individual Artists Program grants announced by Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Department of Cultural Affairs…

5 years ago

Aurora Downtown’s BAR Committee offers grants to small businesses

The Business Attraction and Retention (BAR) Committee of Aurora Downtown is offering small business grants in the Special Service Area…

5 years ago

Illinois airports receive $38.8 million from Federal Aviation Administration

The Illinois airports are awarded $38.8 million in infrastructure grants by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Scott AFB/MidAmerica, Chicago O’Hare,…

5 years ago

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