COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants Awards List
With the support of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the CARES Act, Illinois Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants provided 189 awards, totaling $710,000 in general operating and program support to 178 humanities and cultural nonprofits throughout Illinois.
By Relief Grant Type General Operating: 154 awards; Totaling $520,000 Program Innovation & Adaptation: 20 awards; Totaling $100,000 Community Resilience: 15 awards; Totaling $90,000
For more information, visit ilhumanities.org/reliefgrants or reach out to Mark Hallett, Program Manager, Grants, at [email protected].
Grant Recipient City County Relief Grant Type Atlanta Public Library District Atlanta Logan Community Resilience Atlanta Public Library District Atlanta Logan General Operating Aurora Fire Station Preservation Corps (Aurora Regional Fire Aurora Kane General Operating Museum) Aurora Fire Station Preservation Corp (Aurora Regional Fire Aurora Kane Community Museum) Resilience Aurora Historical Society Aurora Kane General Operating Center for Racial Harmony Belleville St. Clair General Operating St. Clair County Historical Society Belleville St. Clair General Operating Bishop Hill Heritage Association Bishop Hill Henry General Operating David Davis Mansion Foundation Bloomington McLean General Operating McLean County Historical Society Bloomington McLean General Operating Buffalo Grove Park District Buffalo Grove Cook General Operating Crossroads Blues Society, Inc. Byron Ogle General Operating Carbondale Community Arts Carbondale Jackson Community Resilience Carbondale Community Arts, Inc. Carbondale Jackson General Operating Heterodyne Broadcasting Company Carbondale Jackson General Operating Libre Carbondale Jackson Program Innovation & Adaptation Southern Illinois Achievers (African American Museum of Carbondale Jackson Program Innovation Southern Illinois) & Adaptation
Illinois Humanities activates the humanities through free public programs, grants, and educational opportunities that foster reflection, spark conversation, build community, and strengthen civic engagement. Illinois Humanities is a nonprofit organization and the state’s affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at ilhumanities.org and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube @ILHumanities.
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Grant Recipient City County Relief Grant Type Macoupin County Historical Society Carlinville Macoupin General Operating Cedarville Area Historical Society Cedarville Stephenson General Operating Centralia Area Historical Society Centralia Marion General Operating Preservation and Conservation Association of Champaign County Champaign Champaign General Operating 6018North, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating 826CHI, Inc. NFP Chicago Cook General Operating About Face Theatre Collective Chicago Cook General Operating Al Raby Foundation Chicago Cook General Operating American Blues Theater, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture Chicago Cook General Operating Barrel of Monkeys Productions (PlayMakers Laboratory Theatre) Chicago Cook General Operating BECOME: Center for Community Engagement and Social Change Chicago Cook Community Resilience Bronzeville Black Chicagoan Historical Society Chicago Cook General Operating Changing Worlds Chicago Cook Community Resilience Changing Worlds Chicago Cook Program Innovation & Adaptation Charnley-Persky House Museum Foundation Chicago Cook General Operating Chicago Blues Museum Chicago Cook General Operating Chicago Collections Consortium, Inc. NFP Chicago Cook Program Innovation & Adaptation Chicago Cultural Alliance Chicago Cook Community Resilience Chicago for Chicagoans Chicago Cook General Operating Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) Chicago Cook General Operating Chicago Public Art Group Chicago Cook Program Innovation & Adaptation Chicago Youth Shakespeare, Inc. Chicago Cook General Operating CivicLab, Inc. Chicago Cook General Operating Collaboraction Theatre Company Chicago Cook Community Resilience Collaboraction Theatre Company Chicago Cook General Operating ConTextos Chicago Cook Community Resilience Contratiempo, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating Crossing Borders Music Collective Chicago Cook General Operating Deeply Rooted Productions, Inc. (Deeply Rooted Dance Theater) Chicago Cook General Operating Definition Theatre Company Chicago Cook General Operating Design Museum of Chicago Chicago Cook General Operating
Illinois Humanities activates the humanities through free public programs, grants, and educational opportunities that foster reflection, spark conversation, build community, and strengthen civic engagement. Illinois Humanities is a nonprofit organization and the state’s affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at ilhumanities.org and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube @ILHumanities.
125 S Clark St Ste 650 | Chicago, IL 60603-4048 | (312) 422-5580 Illinois Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants Awards List 3
Grant Recipient City County Relief Grant Type eta Creative Arts Foundation Chicago Cook General Operating Fifth House Ensemble Chicago Cook General Operating Firebrand Theatre Chicago Cook General Operating Free Write Arts & Literacy, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating Full Spectrum Features, NFP Chicago Cook Community Resilience Full Spectrum Features, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating Fund for Innovative TV (Media Burn Archive) Chicago Cook General Operating Gilloury Institute (Silk Road Rising) Chicago Cook General Operating Glessner House Museum (Glessner House) Chicago Cook General Operating Global Girls, Inc. Chicago Cook General Operating Go Veggie, Inc. (National Vegetarian Museum) Chicago Cook Program Innovation & Adaptation Guild Literary Complex Chicago Cook General Operating Haitian American Museum of Chicago Chicago Cook General Operating Honey Pot Performance Chicago Cook Program Innovation & Adaptation In My Brothers Shoes Chicago Cook General Operating International Children’s Media Center Chicago Cook General Operating Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art Chicago Cook General Operating Kartemquin Educational Films Chicago Cook General Operating Kuumba Lynx Chicago Cook Community Resilience Kuumba Lynx Chicago Cook General Operating Lithuanian Archives Project Chicago Cook General Operating Logan Square Chamber of Arts Chicago Cook General Operating Musical Arts Institute Chicago Cook General Operating Muslim American Leadership Alliance Chicago Cook General Operating NAJWA Dance Corps Chicago Cook General Operating NON-OP, Inc. Chicago Cook General Operating OPEN Center for the Arts Chicago Cook General Operating Pilot Light Chicago Cook General Operating Poetry Center of Chicago Chicago Cook General Operating Public Housing Museum Chicago Cook Program Innovation & Adaptation Public Media Institute Chicago Cook General Operating Puerto Rican Arts Alliance (PRAA) Chicago Cook General Operating Que4, LLC Chicago Cook General Operating
Illinois Humanities activates the humanities through free public programs, grants, and educational opportunities that foster reflection, spark conversation, build community, and strengthen civic engagement. Illinois Humanities is a nonprofit organization and the state’s affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at ilhumanities.org and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube @ILHumanities.
125 S Clark St Ste 650 | Chicago, IL 60603-4048 | (312) 422-5580 Illinois Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants Awards List 4
Grant Recipient City County Relief Grant Type Repertorio Latino Theater Company Chicago Cook Program Innovation & Adaptation Silent Theatre Company Chicago Cook General Operating Sixty Inches from Center Chicago Cook General Operating South Side Community Art Center Chicago Cook General Operating South Side Weekly, NFP Chicago Cook Community Resilience South Side Weekly, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating Still Point Theatre Collective Chicago Cook General Operating Strategy for Access Foundation, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating The Paper Machete Show Inc, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating The Rebuild Foundation, NFP Chicago Cook General Operating The Voices and Faces Project Chicago Cook Program Innovation & Adaptation Third Coast International Audio Festival Chicago Cook General Operating Ukrainian National Museum Chicago Cook General Operating Young Chicago Authors Chicago Cook General Operating Red Mask Players Danville Vermilion General Operating African-American Cultural & Genealogical Society of Illinois, Inc. Decatur Macon General Operating Glidden Homestead and Historical Center DeKalb DeKalb General Operating Preservation of Egyptian Theatre, Inc. (Egyptian Theatre) Dekalb DeKalb General Operating Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home Dixon Lee General Operating Wheels O’ Time Museum Dunlap Peoria General Operating Quad Cities Jazz Festival, LTD East Moline Rock Island General Operating Eastlight Theatre East Peoria Tazwell General Operating Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts and Humanities East St. Louis St. Clair General Operating 1820 Col. Benjamin Stephenson House Edwardsville Madison General Operating Madison County Historical Society Edwardsville Madison General Operating Effingham Public Library Effingham Effingham Community Resilience Children’s Theatre of Elgin Elgin Kane General Operating Elgin Area Historical Society (Elgin History Museum) Elgin Kane General Operating Hamilton Wings Elgin Kane General Operating MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe Elmhurst DuPage General Operating Mitchell Museum of the American Indian Evanston Cook General Operating Lincoln Highway Association, Inc. (Lincoln Highway Interpretive Franklin Grove Lee Program Innovation Center) & Adaptation Stephenson County Historical Society Freeport Stephenson General Operating
Illinois Humanities activates the humanities through free public programs, grants, and educational opportunities that foster reflection, spark conversation, build community, and strengthen civic engagement. Illinois Humanities is a nonprofit organization and the state’s affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at ilhumanities.org and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube @ILHumanities.
125 S Clark St Ste 650 | Chicago, IL 60603-4048 | (312) 422-5580 Illinois Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants Awards List 5
Grant Recipient City County Relief Grant Type Galena Center for the Arts Galena Jo Daviess Community Resilience Galena Center for the Arts, Inc. Galena Jo Daviess General Operating Galesburg Civic Art Center, Inc. Galesburg Knox General Operating Galesburg Museums, Inc. (Discovery Depot Children’s Museum) Galesburg Knox Program Innovation & Adaptation Cumberland County Historical & Genealogical Society Greenup Cumberland General Operating American Farm Heritage, NFP Greenville Bond General Operating Imagine Hillsboro Hillsboro Montgomery General Operating Hinckley Historical Society Hinckley DeKalb General Operating Easley Pioneer Museum Foundation, Inc. Ipava Fulton General Operating Jacksonville Main Street Jacksonville Morgan General Operating Joliet Area Historical Museum Joliet Will General Operating P.A.S.T. of Union County Jonesboro Union General Operating La Grange Area Historical Society La Grange Cook General Operating History Center Lake Forest Lake Bluff Lake Forest Lake Program Innovation & Adaptation Canal Corridor Association Lasalle LaSalle General Operating Hegeler-Carus Foundation LaSalle LaSalle General Operating Lawrence Countylinois, Historical Society Lawrenceville Lawrence General Operating Lincoln Log Cabin Foundation Lerna Coles General Operating David Adler Cultural Center (David Adler Music and Arts Center) Libertyville Lake General Operating Lincoln Heritage Museum (Lincoln College) Lincoln Logan General Operating Western Illinois Museum Macomb McDonough General Operating Magnolia Township Preservation Association Magnolia Putnam General Operating Champaign County Forest Preserve District Mahomet Champaign General Operating Museum of the Grant Prairie Mahomet Champaign Program Innovation & Adaptation Thebes Historical Society Marion Williamson General Operating Williamson County Historical Society Marion Williamson General Operating Market Street MTC, Inc. Mount Carmel Wabash General Operating Jefferson County Historical Society Mount Vernon Jefferson General Operating General John A. Logan Museum Murphysboro Jackson General Operating Washington County Historical Society Nashville Washington General Operating Reddick Mansion Association Ottawa LaSalle General Operating Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical Society Pekin Tazwell General Operating Artists Reenvisioning Tomorrow, Inc. Peoria Peoria General Operating East Bluff Community Center Peoria Peoria General Operating
Illinois Humanities activates the humanities through free public programs, grants, and educational opportunities that foster reflection, spark conversation, build community, and strengthen civic engagement. Illinois Humanities is a nonprofit organization and the state’s affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at ilhumanities.org and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube @ILHumanities.
125 S Clark St Ste 650 | Chicago, IL 60603-4048 | (312) 422-5580 Illinois Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants Awards List 6
Grant Recipient City County Relief Grant Type Peoria Historical Society Peoria Peoria Program Innovation & Adaptation Illinois Rural Heritage Museum Pinckneyville Perry General Operating Abe Lincoln Project Pittsfield Pike General Operating Greater Livingston County Arts Council Pontiac Livingston General Operating Livingston County Historical Society Pontiac Livingston General Operating Bureau County Historical Society Princeton Bureau General Operating BACKBONES Prospect Cook Program Innovation Heights & Adaptation Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County Quincy Adams General Operating Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods Riverwoods Lake Community Resilience Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods Riverwoods Lake General Operating Robbins Historical Society Museum Robbins Cook General Operating Ballet Quad Cities Rock Island Rock Island Program Innovation & Adaptation Colonel Davenport Historical Foundation Rock Island Rock Island General Operating Midwest Writing Center Rock Island Rock Island General Operating Theatre Foundation Rock Island Rock Island General Operating Ethnic Heritage Museum Rockford Winnebago General Operating Midway Village & Museum Center Rockford Winnebago General Operating The Hub Arts and Cultural Center Rushville Schuyler General Operating St. Charles History Museum Saint Charles DuPage General Operating Savanna Historical Society Savanna Carroll Community Resilience Savanna Historical Society, NFP Savanna Carroll General Operating Shabonna-Lee-Rollo Historical Museum Shabonna DeKalb General Operating Gallatin County Historical Society Shawneetown Gallatin General Operating Hoogland Center for the Arts, Inc. Springfield Sangamon General Operating Illinois Route 66 Heritage Project, Inc. (Illinois Route 66 Scenic Springfield Sangamon General Operating Byway, Inc.) Illinois State Historical Society Springfield Sangamon General Operating Illinois State Museum Society Springfield Sangamon General Operating Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition Springfield Sangamon Program Innovation & Adaptation Springfield Theatre Centre Springfield Sangamon General Operating DeKalb County History Center Sycamore DeKalb General Operating Stark County Historical Society Toulon Stark General Operating McHenry County Historical Society Union Union General Operating
Illinois Humanities activates the humanities through free public programs, grants, and educational opportunities that foster reflection, spark conversation, build community, and strengthen civic engagement. Illinois Humanities is a nonprofit organization and the state’s affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at ilhumanities.org and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube @ILHumanities.
125 S Clark St Ste 650 | Chicago, IL 60603-4048 | (312) 422-5580 Illinois Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants Awards List 7
Grant Recipient City County Relief Grant Type Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Urbana Champaign General Operating LaSalle County Historical Society Utica LaSalle General Operating Iroquois County Historical Society Watseka Iroquois General Operating Ray Bradbury Experience Museum Waukegan Lake Program Innovation & Adaptation Mexican Cultural Center West Chicago DuPage Program Innovation & Adaptation The Corn Stock Theatre West Peoria Peoria General Operating Korean Cultural Center of Chicago Wheeling Cook General Operating Old School Museum Winchester Scott General Operating
With the support of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the CARES Act, Illinois Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants provided 189 awards, totaling $710,000 in general operating and program support to 178 humanities and cultural nonprofits throughout Illinois.
By Relief Grant Type General Operating: 154 awards; Totaling $520,000 Program Innovation & Adaptation: 20 awards; Totaling $100,000 Community Resilience: 15 awards; Totaling $90,000
For more information, visit ilhumanities.org/reliefgrants or reach out to Mark Hallett, Program Manager, Grants, at [email protected].
Illinois Humanities activates the humanities through free public programs, grants, and educational opportunities that foster reflection, spark conversation, build community, and strengthen civic engagement. Illinois Humanities is a nonprofit organization and the state’s affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at ilhumanities.org and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube @ILHumanities.
125 S Clark St Ste 650 | Chicago, IL 60603-4048 | (312) 422-5580