Chicago will get more than $27 million in Energy Efficient Conservation Block Grants as part of the federal stimulus program....
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 05.25.2011
Metropolitan Chicago will receive more than $25 million in federal funding for various construction and Army Corps of Engineers projects....
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO (AP) -- The nation's second largest transit system has already begun using federal stimulus money to repair Chicago's aging subway network, of...
Chi-Town Daily News | ALEX PARKER | Posted 05.25.2011
On a day of twists and turns on the fate of four city-run mental health clinics, the mayor's office announced that the centers will stay open with the...
Chi-Town Daily News | ALEX PARKER | Posted 05.25.2011
Nearly $10 million of federal stimulus money is earmarked for substance abuse and mental health services in Chicago, and opponents of a plan to close ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago's $1 billion cut of the federal stimulus pie will be used, in part, to rebuild 43 miles of pothole-filled arterial streets, upgrade the police...
Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
Illinois transportation officials say they haven't missed any federal deadlines for stimulus funds. And an Illinois Department of Transportation spok...
Chicago Tribune | Jon Hilkevitch | Posted 05.25.2011
Illinois still has not officially submitted a list of shovel-ready road and mass transit projects to the federal government for funding under the econ...
Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he is holding back his list of projects that could be funded by federal stimulus money because he's afraid of raising...
Chicago Public Radio | Gabriel Spitzer | Posted 05.25.2011
llinois officials expect to get the state's first chunk of federal stimulus money today. But they're unclear on how much it will be, and what it can b...
Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
With Illinois poised to get nearly $9 billion from the federal stimulus bill, state and city officials have been scrambling to compile wish lists of p...
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 05.25.2011
Almost every Chicago alderman said they support a resolution introduced Wednesday calling on Mayor Richard Daley to publicly release the list of proje...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Richard M. Daley hasn't been too specific about what's on the city's economic-stimulus wish list. But during a visit to Washington on Tuesday, h...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011
Another set of hungry folks is bellying up to Barack Obama's fiscal stimulus table. The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is trying to take co...
Chicago Public Radio | Adriene Hill | Posted 05.25.2011