City of Galesburg named finalist for $300,000 grant through the Illinois DCEO Community Development Block Grant Healthy Houses Program Updated: 12 hours ago| By KWQC Staff The city says if they receive the grant, the funding will support the replacement of HVAC systems in rental homes with six...
This paper reviews the process and organization used to apply for and secure block grants under the Housing and Urban Development Block Grant program in several Illinois counties. The topics to be discussed include a brief look at the art of grantsmanship, an explanation of the Hun Block Grant ...
In celebration of Spring and the lovely cherry blossom trees that seem to be blooming all over town, it seems like the perfect time to share this lush archive of Japanese woodblock prints from the digital archive, Ukiyo-e. The archive spans three centuries of traditional and contemporary Japane...
Armed with an $18 million grant, the joint effort between the city of Chicago, the state, the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab and three local non-profits aimed to reach 1,000 youth in 15 neighborhoods on the South and West sides who had stopped going to school 18 months prior or lo...
The fraudulent Plat of PUD document was a required element in Ordinance 2021-03 passed by the Geneva City Council to grant the Planned Unit Development Special Use. That Ordinance along with the fraudulent PUD Plat were also both required before the deadline set by the Illinois Housing ...
*WCIA | ‘Just a lot of uncertainty’; Federal funding orders leaving some Central IL cities concerned:Both Champaign and Urbana count on millions of dollars in federal funding. Champaign’s budget for the last fiscal year had about $10.7 million in grant revenue. Urbana’s budget for this ...
Christopher Lacy: I grew up on a dead-end block in a little town in Illinois on the far south side of Chicago called Robbins. It has a very high crime rate and a very impoverished community so as you could imagine we grew up pretty poor. I personally didn’t feel the effects of pov...
Elite readers were treated to its glossy pages, gorgeous photography, and elevated recipes until 2009 when the publication headed for the chopping block. 1942: Hawaii overprint note National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History // Wikimedia Commons 1942: Hawaii overprint note Afte...
J.Lo, Jenny from the Block, the former Mrs. Marc Antony—it doesn't matter what you call her, Jennifer Lopez is one of the biggest stars in the world. Originally from the Bronx, Lopez started her career as a backup dancer before transitioning into acting in 1993. She released her debut...
I stopped blogging for several years shortly after the big Wonderful Development opened downtown. You may recall that they remodeled the Pere Marquette, opened the new Courtyard Marriott, and had plans to put in restaurants and bars and retail, and oh, goodness, that block was going to be ho...