Landmarks Illinois offers multiple grant programs that provide monetary assistance to help preserve or protect significant structures and sites in Illinois. Explore the different grant programs below to see if you are eligible to apply for funding.
Landmarks Illinois’ Preservation Heritage Fund grants are intended to provide monetary assistance to significant structures or sites in Illinois that are under threat of demolition, in imminent deterioration, in need of stabilization, in need of structural or re-use evaluation, or need to be evaluated for landmark eligibility. The Preservation Heritage Fund was established in 2004.
Learn MoreThe Barbara C. and Thomas E. Donnelley II Preservation Fund for Illinois provides monetary assistance to preserve or protect significant structures and sites in Illinois. Eligible beneficiaries include significant structures or sites in Illinois that are under threat of demolition, in imminent deterioration, in need of stabilization, in need of structural or re-use evaluation, or need to be evaluated for landmark eligibility. Landmarks Illinois manages the fund, which was established in 2013.
Learn MoreLandmarks Illinois launched this new grant program in May 2020 in honor of acclaimed historian and civil rights activist, Timuel D. Black, Jr., The fund recognizes the deep and sustained influence Chicago’s South Side has had on Mr. Black’s life, as well as the lives of countless others historically and today.
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The two-year pilot grant program, launched in 2022 in partnership with Banterra Bank, provided monetary assistance to preserve or rehabilitate historic structures in downtowns and other commercial corridors of Southern Illinois to support economic development.
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Landmarks Illinois COVID-19 Organization Relief Grants provided monetary assistance to nonprofit organizations in the state of Illinois that were financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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