Community Project Funding - FY2024

The Office of Congresswoman Delia Ramirez is submitting the maximum 15 requests allowed for Community Project Funding on behalf of IL-03 constituents for the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process.  Congresswoman Ramirez has submitted the below listed Community Project Funding requests to the House Appropriations Committee for consideration (listed in alphabetical order).

Funding for Community Project Funding requests is not guaranteed. These requests will next need to further advance out of the House Appropriations Committee, pass out of Congress in a final spending agreement, and ultimately be signed into law by the President before any funding would be enacted. 

Affordable Housing Development Project
Proposed Recipient: Village of Glen Ellyn 
Requested Funding Level: $750,000

If awarded, funding would be used to facilitate demolition and site remediation necessary to create space for an affordable housing development. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 
 

Blackwell Forest Preserve Cenacle Bridge Project 
Proposed Recipient: Forest Preserve District of DuPage County 
Requested Funding Level: $300,000

If awarded, funding would be used to support replacing a deteriorating bridge structure in order to improve connection and access to trails within the forest preserve for residents and visitors. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here.

Creating a Welcoming and Healthy Community for Families in Chicago's Belmont Cragin 
Proposed Recipient: Onward Neighborhood House 
Requested Funding Level: $3,000,000

If awarded, funding would be used to expand space needed to scale up the food pantry in response to increased food insecurity. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 
 

Elmwood Grand Senior Apartments Project 
Proposed Recipient: Village of Elmwood Park 
Requested Funding Level: $1,900,000 

If awarded, funding would be used for a new 38-unit affordable senior housing development. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 
 

Enhanced Safety Project
Proposed Recipient: Educare West DuPage 
Requested Funding Level: $161,250

If awarded, funding would be used for necessary security and safety enhancements where families are entering and exiting the early childhood education program with their young children. Safety improvements include replacing deteriorated pavement, exterior lighting, and gates into the playground. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 
 

Here to Stay Community Land Trust Project 
Proposed Recipient: Here to Stay Community Land Trust 
Requested Funding Level: $1,000,000

If awarded, funding would be used to create permanently affordable homes to mitigate displacement of long-time community members by increasing access to affordable homeownership. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here.

Humboldt Park Accessibility ADA Project
Proposed Recipient: Chicago Park District 
Requested Funding Level: $1,000,000

If awarded, funding would used to make accessibility improvements to Humboldt Park by repairing potholes, eliminating water issues that create safety hazards, and ensuring a safe accessible pathway system throughout Humboldt Park for all residents. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 
 

Kingery Highway Accessible Frontage Roads Resurfacing and Manhole Replacement
Proposed Recipient: Addison Township
Requested Funding Level: $1,400,000

If awarded, funding would be used for resurfacing more than 3,000 feet for two roads, providing ingress and egress accessibility to Kingery Highway. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 

 

LUCHA New Office Phase 1 Project
Proposed Recipient: Latin United Community House Association (LUCHA) 
Requested Funding Level: $2,000,000

If awarded, funding would be used to revitalize a vacant building to be used by LUCHA to carry out housing services for low- and moderate-income households. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here.
 

Naperville Road at IL-38 Intersection Improvement Project
Proposed Recipient: DuPage County Board 
Requested Funding Level: $1,000,000

If awarded, funding would be used to address daily traffic congestion and to improve road safety by establishing additional turn lanes, modernizing traffic signals, and improving ADA accessibility of pedestrian facilities. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here.
 

North Avenue Streetscape from Central Park Avenue to Cicero Avenue
Proposed Recipient: City of Chicago
Requested Funding Level: $2,000,000

If awarded, funding would be used to make safety traffic, bicycle, and pedestrian safety improvements. Improvements include full width street resurfacing and base repair, drainage improvements, new sidewalks, ADA ramps, crosswalks, new lighting, new curbs and gutters, pavement markings, and traffic signal modernization. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here.

Pace Harlem Avenue Transit Signal Priority Project 
Proposed Recipient: Pace Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority 
Requested Funding Level: $840,000

If awarded, funding would be used to implement transit signal improvements on Harlem Avenue between Irving Park Road and North Avenue, a corridor with one of the heaviest bus ridership rates in Cook County, Illinois. These transit signal improvements would facilitate shorter travel times for bus riders. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 

Tonne Road Reconstruction
Proposed Recipient: Village of Elk Grove 
Requested Funding Level: $13,050,000

If awarded, funding would be used to eliminate conflicting turn movements between trucks and passenger vehicles while increasing the utility of the boulevard to include the multi-use trail, completing a major gap in the Village of Elk Grove's planned bicycle and pedestrian network. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 

Washington Street Improvements Plan 
Proposed Recipient: Village of Franklin Park 
Requested Funding Level: $751,779

If awarded, funding would be used to replace 20 lead service lines for residential drinking water in the Village of Franklin Park. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here. 

York Road at Canadian Pacific Rail Road Grade Separation Project
Proposed Recipient: Village of Bensenville
Requested Funding Level: $1,000,000

If awarded, funding would be used to grade separate York Road at the Metra/Canadian Pacific Railroad tracks. The merger of the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern will add an estimated 300% more trains through the Village's downtown, and blocks all of the Village's crossings at the same time. The proposed grade separation would help mitigate the merger's impact on the motoring public, small businesses, and emergency responders. A financial disclosure and federal nexus letter can be found here.