Congressionally Directed Spending Requests - Fiscal Year 2023
Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) is a program that enables Members of Congress to request direct funding for projects that benefit the communities they represent. Senator Duckworth worked with an Independent Review Board to examine and evaluate projects focused on building infrastructure, stimulating economic development and providing essential services for Illinois communities. This page will be updated on a rolling basis.
In compliance with Senate Rule XLIV and Committee Requirement, Senator Duckworth has certified that she, her spouse and her immediate family have no financial interest in any of the projects requested below.
Following the Independent Review Board’s examination, Senator Duckworth has requested federal funding for the following Illinois projects:
Recipient Name: Army Corps of Engineers (Civil)
Project Location: Illinois
Amount Requested: $49,300,000
Project Purpose: This funding will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to complete the design of the modernization of the LaGrange Lock on the Illinois River, south of Beardstown. It is the next priority project in the NESP program, which will expand and modernize seven locks at the most congested lock locations along the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers as well as fund $1.7 billion in ecosystem restoration.
Recipient Name: City of Evanston
Project Location: Evanston, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: The One Stop Shop for Retrofitting Affordable, Resilient Net-Zero Homes is a 2-year pilot program that would focus on retrofitting naturally occurring affordable housing in Evanston, Illinois. The goal is to establish a sustainable and scalable program that will preserve affordability, drastically reduce carbon emissions and maximize local economic impacts on building owners, residents and businesses.
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
Recipient Name: Community Health & Emergency Services, Inc.
Project Location: Cairo, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: Funding from this project would help contribute to the construction of a sixteen-bed hospital wing at the CHESI Critical Access Hospital in Cairo, Illinois, which would include a 24/7 emergency room.
Recipient Name: Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Project Location: Mount Carroll, Illinois
Amount Requested: $83,000
Project Purpose: In partnership with the West Carroll School District, the University of Illinois Extension will develop a STEAM hub in Mount Carroll, Illinois. This STEAM Hub project would include computers, digital and 3-D printers, sewing machines and art supplies for classroom instruction and after-school learning. This project funding would contribute to renovating existing space, the purchasing of new hardware, software and tech equipment and the supplies necessary to operate the facility.
Recipient Name: Mt. Morris Fire Protection District
Project Location: Mt. Morris, Illinois
Amount Requested: $500,000
Project Purpose: The purpose of this project is to provide funding for the design, engineering and site work for the construction of a new fire station in Mt. Morris, Illinois. The existing fire station has not been updated since the 1920s.
Recipient Name: Hamilton Memorial Hospital District
Projection Location: McLeansboro, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: Hamilton Memorial Hospital District is a Critical Access Hospital and municipal government entity located in McLeansboro, Illinois. The purpose of this project is to purchase and implement the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system thereby allowing for improved coordination and collaboration of patient care across rural health care systems, specifically in the southern Illinois region.
Recipient Name: Clay County Hospital and Medical Clinics
Project Location: Clay County, Illinois
Amount Requested: $4,555,000
Project Purpose: The purpose of this project is to expand and remodel Clay County Hospital's Flora clinic to create a space that is conducive to providing safe, accessible, collaborative care to patients for many years into the future.
Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies
Recipient Name: City of Chicago
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $350,000
Project Purpose: This funding would support staff and
programming focused on helping people with disabilities who are victims of
violence, and people who become disabled as a result of gun and community
violence.
Recipient Name: Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education
Center
Project Location: Skokie, Illinois
Amount Requested: $299,000
Project Purpose: This funding would support the
statewide expansion of the Illinois Holocaust Museum's LEAD Training, an
evidence-based initiative providing education to law enforcement personnel
related to good policing, anti-bias practice, hate crime reporting and racial
awareness to improve relations between police and the communities they serve.
Recipient Name: Healthy Schools Campaign
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $750,000
Project Purpose: This funding would support the Space
to Grow initiative, which is an innovative response to the impacts of climate
change and historic disinvestment on Chicago neighborhoods, schools and
students. This program would help make sure school communities have a voice in
the design of their schoolyard, provide nature-based and climate resilience
education to foster generations of environmental stewards and work with all the
partners to ensure the green stormwater infrastructure is well maintained over
time.
Recipient Name: Heartland Alliance for Human Need
& Human Rights
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $500,000
Project Purpose: The Rapid Employment and Development
Initiative (READI) Chicago program works to strengthen employment opportunities
for underserved individuals vulnerable to falling into gang life or the justice
system through paid transitional jobs, cognitive-behavioral interventions
(CBI), coaching and supportive services. READI is specifically focused on
decreasing their program participant's involvement in gun violence and the
criminal justice system and helps identify viable paths for better life
outcomes.
Recipient Name: University of Illinois-Chicago –
School of Public Health
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would fund the
collective design and implementation of a community-driven air monitoring
program to identify and uncover local air quality concerns and disparities
across the City of Chicago. The goal of this program is to help guide public
policy decisions at the local level to spearhead improvements in health and
racial inequity, climate resiliency and renewable energy infrastructure.
Financial Services and General Government
Recipient Name: mHUB
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $921,000
Project Purpose: This funding would contribute to the
mHUB Catalyze Initiative, which is a 5-year, $8.6 million effort to reduce
structural barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation in manufacturing for
women and people of color. Developed to tackle systemic problems with
multi-pronged solutions, the Catalyze Initiative bridges the access gap for
underrepresented manufacturers, engineers and small business owners through a
portfolio of programs to combat inequity.
Recipient Name: Joliet Junior College
Project Location: Joliet, Illinois
Amount Requested: $312,000
Project Purpose: This funding for the Joliet Junior
College Entrepreneurial Development Center would help foster economic
development within Joliet and the Illinois Community College District 525. This
project would work directly with new and existing entrepreneurs from the
conceptual stage of a business to formal businesses enterprises, assisting
entrepreneurs with education, training and resource identification.
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies
Recipient Name: Cook County Bureau of Asset Management
Project Location: Markham, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: To enhance the accessibility of the Markham Courthouse
in Markham, Illinois.
Recipient Name: Greater Chicago Food Depository
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $450,000
Project Purpose: This project would help address food insecurity and
hunger in the Chicagoland region.
Recipient Name: Breakthrough Urban Ministries, Inc.
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would provide 14 units of new affordable
housing to families in the East Garfield Park community area on Chicago's west
side.
Recipient Name: Centreville Citizens for Change
Project Location: Cahokia Heights, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,741,000
Project Purpose: This project would provide immediate relief to
Centreville community residents by addressing the contaminated indoor air and
drinking water in many homes. These unhealthy home conditions, caused by
chronic flooding and wastewater overflow events, are serious public health
issues. This project would be implemented in coordination with the Urban League
St. Louis.
Recipient Name: Village of Savoy
Project Location: Savoy, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the construction of
several multi-modal transportation routes, most notably the construction of an
overpass for the Canadian National Railroad tracks with the associated 2-miles
of required track realignment.
Recipient Name: Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,200,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the full reconstruction of
Butler Drive, a key link in interstate commerce, and the adjacent truck loading
areas with pavement designed for heavy vehicle use.
Recipient Name: Town of Normal
Project Location: Normal, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Project Purpose: This project would increase pedestrian and bicycle
access from low- and moderate-income communities to major commercial and
metropolitan areas in Normal, Illinois.
Recipient Name: Illinois Department of Transportation
Project Location: Statewide
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund an Illinois Department of
Transportation (IDOT) project to deploy battery-electric paratransit buses and
related charging infrastructure to rural and urban public transportation
providers across the State.
Recipient Name: Springfield Airport Authority
Project Location: Springfield, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Project Purpose: This project would expand the north commercial aircraft
parking ramp to accommodate increased airside activity from the Illinois Army
National Guard. The ramp expansion would provide needed safety separation from
the commercial airline gates and parking locations for Illinois Army National
Guard fixed and rotor-wing aircraft adjacent to ILANG facilities in the
terminal building.
Recipient Name: Chicago Transit Authority
Project Location: Oak Park, Illinois
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would help improve the accessibility of
the Oak Park and Ridgeland stations on the CTA Green Line.
Recipient Name: County of Washington
Project Location: Nashville, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2,561,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the construction of an
Emergency Operations Center in Washington County, Illinois.
Recipient Name: Village of Hampshire
Project Location: Hampshire, Illinois
Amount Requested: $518,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the replacement of
undersized storm sewers to accommodate the increases in stormwater this area
sees. The location of this project, the intersection of Park St. and Rinn Ave
in Hampshire, Illinois, sees chronic flooding from relatively minor rain
events.
Recipient Name: City of Rockford
Project Location: Rockford, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the construction of a
Homeland Security Emergency Operations Center (EOC) for coordination of
emergency response activities in the City of Rockford. This center will serve
as the hub of all response activities for fire, police, public works and other
governmental and non-governmental officials.
Recipient Name: City of Peoria
Project Location: Peoria, Illinois
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the installation of a
water-tight modular panel wall system that is installed on a concrete
foundation - to provide flood protection for historical buildings, business
properties on Water Street and the Riverfront Museum and Caterpillar Visitor
Center in Peoria, Illinois.
Labor, Health & Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
Recipient Name: Advocate Christ Medical Center
Project Location: Cook County, Illinois
Amount Requested: $950,000
Project Purpose: This project would help enhance capacity at the
Southland Hospitals and Shelters Collaborative Partnership - a group of local
hospitals and social service agencies who collaborate to provide medical care,
emergency housing services and short-term emergency assistance to families who
are experiencing homelessness in suburban Cook County.
Recipient Name: Chinese American Service League
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $750,000
Project Purpose: This project would help support the expansion of the
Chinese American Service League's behavioral health services department.
Recipient Name: Adaptive Adventures
Project Location: Schaumburg, Illinois
Amount Requested: $228,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the establishment of a
community-based adaptive sports center that will act as a hub for adaptive
sports opportunities in the Cook County area.
Recipient Name: Revolution Workshop
Project Location: Multiple Counties, Illinois
Amount Requested: $500,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund Revolution Workshop's
Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Job Training Program, focused on reducing
economic inequality through comprehensive job training.
Recipient Name: Kaskaskia College
Project Location: Multiple Counties, Illinois
Amount Requested: $413,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the development of a
mobile manufacturing and training lab focused on workforce development and
career training initiatives.
Recipient Name: Chicago State University
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $800,000
Project Purpose: This project would help enable the redesign of the
Chicago State University curriculum and increase access to the internet by
improving and expanding computer facilities.
Recipient Name: City Colleges of Chicago
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $500,000
Project Purpose: This project would help schools in the Chicago Public
School system create a pathway for students in their senior year to navigate
higher education opportunities at City Colleges of Chicago.
Recipient Name: Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $402,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the implementation of the
Technology Divide Relief program, to provide critical technical support to
individuals with disabilities to help make sure they have equitable access to
services and support.
Recipient Name: The Network: Advocating Against Domestic Violence
Project Location: Statewide - Illinois
Amount Requested: $550,000
Project Purpose: This project would enable an essential expansion of the
Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline.
Recipient Name: Current
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $225,000
Project Purpose: This project would provide funding for the development
of a pilot, entry-level training program centered on water quality sampling and
monitoring.
Recipient Name: AeroStar Avion Institute
Project Location: Cook County, Illinois
Amount Requested: $350,000
Project Purpose: The purpose of this project is to fund an educational
apprentice program to address the Federally recognized shortage of aircraft
pilots nationwide as well as the underrepresentation of women and people of
color serving as pilots in the aerospace industry.
Recipient Name: B U I L D INCORPORATED (BUILD, Inc.)
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $649,000
Project Purpose: This project would fund the launch of two additional
Mobile Mental Health programs to expand access to mental healthcare in Chicago
neighborhoods.
Recipient Name: Infant Welfare Society of Chicago
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $978,000
Project Purpose: The purpose of this project is to expand the Infant
Welfare Society's integrated and coordinated healthcare home to meet the urgent
needs of low-income communities identified as areas lacking access to
healthcare professionals.
Recipient Name: Illinois CASA
Project Location: Statewide - Illinois
Amount Requested: $256,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the expansion of Court
Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) programs to six central Illinois counties
within the 4th Judicial Circuit.
Recipient Name: Kids Above All Illinois
Project Location: North Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $975,000
Project Purpose: This project would provide funding for a comprehensive,
educational support system for children four years of age and below living in
underserved communities in Lake County, Illinois.
Recipient Name: Cook County Health
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $863,000
Project Purpose: This project would provide funding to replace equipment
for a newborn intensive care unit.
Interior, Environment and Related Agencies
Recipient Name: City of Jerseyville
Project Location: Jerseyville, Illinois
Amount Requested: $682,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund renovations to the
stormwater drainage system on Pleasant Street in Jerseyville, Illinois.
Recipient Name: City of Eldorado
Project Location: Eldorado, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,650,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the replacement of aging
water distribution infrastructure along Illinois Route 142 in Eldorado,
Illinois.
Recipient Name: City of Chester
Project Location: Chester, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the construction of a new
water storage tank to replace a 500,000-gallon ground storage tank, which was
constructed in 1949 and, due to deterioration, was removed from service in
2017.
Recipient Name: Village of Chicago Ridge
Project Location: Chicago Ridge, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,600,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund critical renovations to
Chicago Ridge's Ridgeland Avenue Lift Station Basin.
Recipient Name: City of Streator
Project Location: Streator, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,600,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the installation of new
energy-efficient motors and variable frequency drives in Streator's WWTP
Oxidation Ditch.
Recipient Name: Historic Liberty Theater
Project Location: Murphysboro
Amount Requested: $20,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund renovations in one of the
theater's restrooms to meet ADA requirements.
Recipient Name: Lincoln Presidential Foundation
Project Location: Springfield, Illinois
Amount Requested: $500,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund construction initiatives
to increase the accessibility of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
Recipient Name: Village of Naplate
Project Location: Naplate, Illinois
Amount Requested: $212,000
Project Purpose: This request would help fund the construction of a
storm sewer extension project.
Recipient Name: Village of Cedar Point
Project Location: Cedar Point, Illinois
Amount Requested: $530,000
Project Purpose: This project would help upgrade the Village of Cedar
Point's wastewater treatment facility, including dike repairs, sludge removal,
rock filter replacement and repairs to the outlet piping.
Recipient Name: Village of Diamond
Project Location: Diamond, Illinois
Amount Requested: $601,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the replacement of
approximately 2,000 feet of an aging and failing watermain and rehabilitate
three sanitary lift stations that are over 30 years old.
Recipient Name: City of Cahokia Heights
Project Location: Cahokia Heights, Illinois
Amount Requested: $5,100,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the rehabilitation of a
portion of the main trunk line sewer in Cahokia Heights, Illinois.
Recipient Name: City of Chicago
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Project Purpose: This project would help fund the removal of lead
service lines in licensed daycare centers in Chicago, Illinois.
