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2025 Community Development
Mission Statement To improve the physical and social infrastructure, quality of life, and overall economic health of Illinois communities by providing financial assistance, technical assistance, and supporting programs that provide core support.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Improve the physical infrastructure within local communities, including disaster assistance.
    1. Improve water and sewer service for residents in local communities demonstrating health and safety compliance issues.
    2. Improve substandard housing units occupied by low to moderate-income (LMI) persons.
  2. Improve the social infrastructure within local communities.
    1. Improve the quality of life for low-income families by increasing the number of jobs created.
  3. Improve the capacity of local communities to meet their community and economic development objectives.
    Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, Community Development/Small Cities Block Grant Fund, Build Illinois Bond Fund Statutory Authority 20 ILCS 605/605-940, 24 CFR 57
    Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
    Input Indicators
    Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 353,570.4 $ 35,675.4 $ 341,094.0 $ 23,088.0 $ 33,802.7
    Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 353,570.4 $ 35,675.4 $ 341,094.0 $ 23,088.0 $ 33,802.7
    Average monthly full-time equivalents 22.0 21.0 21.0 21.0 24.5
    Outcome Indicators
    Disaster assistance - persons served 0.0 63,046 0.0 0.0 0.0
    Disaster assistance - LMI persons served 0.0 28,870 0.0 0.0 0.0
    Individuals served by Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program public infrastructure (water and sewer) (a) 109,432 78,607 6,500 79,823 31,649
    LMI individuals served by CDBG program public infrastructure (water and sewer) (b) 55,810 53,726 3,315 58,818 18,626
    Homes rehabilitated by CDBG 106.0 118.0 110.0 95.0 130.0
    Number of Jobs Retained and/or Created by Public Infrastructure Grants 79.0 0.0 60.0 0.0 0.0
    Footnotes
    FY25 Target/ Projected data was understated. It should have been 98,623. FY25 Target/ Projected data was understated. It should have been 50,297.

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