Community Development Block Grant
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity announced Friday the recipients for the Community Development Block Grant for public infrastructure and housing rehabilitation. A total of $56.9 million was awarded for 54 projects, which will support housing rehabilitation projects and enable communities in non-metropolitan areas to make critical…
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QUINCY — The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has awarded the City of Quincy a $550,000 block grant as part of $8 million for 15 communities to invest in 154 housing improvement projects. Housing rehabilitation grants are designed to assist low-to-moderate income homeowners with improvements to ensure safe and sanitary living conditions. Eligible…
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QUINCY — The City of Quincy is trying something different when it comes to filling potholes this summer. The Department of Central Services typically would send trucks throughout the city and patch holes with shovelfuls of a bituminous coal mix. “Yeah, the city has been doing that for 20 years, and it doesn’t work,” Quincy…
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