Press Release - Wednesday, September 03, 2003
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Governor announces nearly half-billion dollars in school construction grants
CHICAGO, ILL. - Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today announced $482 million in school construction grants that will be awarded to 71 school districts throughout Illinois this fiscal year to help renovate deteriorating buildings and construct new school facilities. Altogether, the grants will help fund 26 new schools and improve 243 existing schools, adding a total of 2,185 new classrooms to Illinois' public school system.
The Governor made two stops to announce the new grants: Western Avenue Elementary School in south suburban Flossmoor and Taylorville Junior High School in central Illinois. Flossmoor School District 161 will receive $4,600,424 in state grants, and Taylorville Community Unit School District 3 will receive $9,094,899.
"Because we are taking a hard look at how the State has been spending money and rejecting the old wasteful practices of the past, we're able to find the resources we need to keep making education our first priority," Blagojevich said. "The grants we are announcing today will create almost 2,200 new classrooms. That's the kind of investment that will have tangible, concrete results for our children."
The school construction program, authorized by the General Assembly in late 1997, was the first state building program in more than two decades to assist local schools with capital expenses.
With the grants announced today, the program has provided $3,106,418,250 since its inception, benefiting 497 school districts in every region of the state, and has assisted in funding the construction of 265 new schools and nearly 12,085 classrooms.
Under the program, local school districts must receive a project entitlement and secure the required local share of construction funds before receiving any state grant funds. The grants range from 35-75 percent of eligible construction costs. By law, Chicago public schools receive 20 percent of all grant funds.
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION GRANTS
Source: Capital Development Board
September 3, 2003
| County | School District | State Share | Local Share |
| Adams | Payson Community Unit School District 1 | $2,272,031 | $827,522 |
| Bond | Mulberry Grove Community Unit School District 1 | $311,048 | $124,074 |
| Bureau | Princeton Township High School District 500 | $6,156,914 | $3,627,380 |
| Champaign | St.Joseph Community Cons. School District 169 | $7,819,135 | $3,062,841 |
| Christian | Taylorville Community Unit School District 3 | $9,094,899 | $7,601,094 |
| Cook | ArborPark School District 145 | $13,005,354 | $9,774,728 |
| Atwood Heights School District 125 | $2,260,308 | $1,525,746 | |
| Berkeley School District 87 | $9,158,775 | $8,451,714 | |
| ChicagoHeights Elementary School District 170 | $4,708,279 | $1,569,426 | |
| Chicago Public Schools District 299 | $96,469,246 | $179,157,170 | |
| CommunityCons.Schools,District 168, Sauk Village | $6,958,632 | $2,319,544 | |
| EastMaine School District 63 | $1,379,768 | $2,562,426 | |
| Flossmoor School District 161 | $4,600,424 | $3,565,869 | |
| FordHeights School District 169 | $7,349,612 | $2,449,871 | |
| ForestRidge School District 142 | $5,757,834 | $3,453,345 | |
| Franklin Park Public School District 84 | $135,874 | $252,336 | |
| Harvey Public Schools 152 | $10,504,754 | $3,501,585 | |
| Hoover Schrum Memorial School District 157 | $3,733,063 | $6,932,830 | |
| Lansing Elementary School District 158 | $2,210,830 | $2,056,811 | |
| Lincoln Elementary District 156 | $2,092,975 | $697,658 | |
| Palos Community Consolidated School District 118 | $2,960,293 | $5,497,687 | |
| Posen-Robbins School District 1432 | $8,804,621 | $2,934,874 | |
| Rich Township High School District 227 | $577,330 | $403,748 | |
| Ridgeland Public School District 122 | $2,156,489 | $4,004,908 | |
| Sandridge School District 172 | $3,745,016 | $1,956,670 | |
| Skokie School District 732 | $1,747,891 | $2,832,487 | |
| StegerSchool District 194 | $11,935,538 | $6,107,221 | |
| WestHarvey/Dixmoor School District 147 | $1,505,370 | $501,790 | |
| Crawford | Palestine Community Unit School District 3 | $4,518,174 | $1,797,947 |
| Robinson Community Unit School District 2 | $4,935,023 | $9,165,043 | |
| DuPage | Bloomingdale School District 13 | $1,794,465 | $3,332,579 |
| Cass School District 63 | $1,840,628 | $3,418,308 | |
| Downers Grove Grade School District 58 | $103,752 | $192,683 | |
| Wood Dale School District 7 | $522,800 | $970,915 | |
| Ford | Paxton-Buckley-Loda Comm. Unit School District 10 | $4,889,210 | $4,246,581 |
| Franklin | Thompsonville School District 62 | $785,084 | $261,695 |
| Greene | Carrollton Community Unit School District 1 | $3,204,562 | $2,384,531 |
| Hancock | Carthage Community Unit School District 338 | $861,075 | $595,167 |
| Jersey | Jersey Community Unit School District 100 | $20,528,288 | $14,151,018 |
| JoDaviess | RiverRidge Community Unit School District 210 | $5,975,999 | $11,098,284 |
| Kane | Geneva Community Unit School District 304 | $2,724,349 | $5,059,506 |
| Kankakee | BourbonnaisElementary School District 53 | $9,525,406 | $4,699,219 |
| St.GeorgeSchool District 258 | $2,582,381 | $2,608,866 | |
| Kendall | Oswego Community Unit School District 308 | $3,459,837 | $3,438,549 |
| Lake | CommunityConsolidatedSchoolDistrict46, Grayslake | $2,046,950 | $1,598,917 |
| GrayslakeCommunity High School District 127 | $14,472,552 | $26,877,596 | |
| North Shore School District 112 | $176,274 | $327,366 | |
| Lawrence | RedHillCommunity Unit School District 10 | $9,947,777 | $4,469,981 |
| Macon | Argenta-Oreana Community Unit School District 1 | $8,384,116 | $9,533,959 |
| Macoupin | Mt.Olive Community Unit School District 5 | $2,424,695 | $808,232 |
| Madison | Collinsville Community Unit School District 10 | $3,775,012 | $3,136,322 |
| EastAlton Elementary School District 13 | $1,303,155 | $434,385 | |
| Marion | CentraliaHigh School District 200 | $24,702,508 | $8,234,169 |
| Selmaville Community Consolidated School District 10 | $4,154,717 | $1,384,906 | |
| McLean | Heyworth Community Unit School District 4 | $2,016,492 | $3,140,839 |
| Perry | Comm.Cons.SchoolDistrict204, Pinckneyville | $1,098,924 | $386,199 |
| Pinckneyville School District 50 | $1,755,703 | $585,234 | |
| Randolph | Chester Community Unit School District 139 | $1,525,869 | $762,016 |
| Shelby | Cowden-Herrick Community Unit School District 3A | $2,922,356 | $974,119 |
| Windsor Community Unit School District 1 | $720,978 | $513,466 | |
| St.Clair | High Mount School District 116 | $5,029,401 | $2,266,385 |
| Mascoutah Community Unit School District 19 | $4,141,061 | $1,380,354 | |
| Shiloh Village School District 85 | $9,768,230 | $4,027,068 | |
| Tazewell | EastPeoria Community High School District 309 | $15,954 | $9,392 |
| RankinCommunity School District 98 | $2,922,850 | $1,469,421 | |
| WashingtonGrade School District 52 | $5,933,125 | $2,782,395 | |
| Washington | Nashville Community Consolidated School District 49 | $4,773,989 | $2,688,027 |
| Will | PlainfieldCommunity Consolidated School District 202 | $65,948,868 | $73,173,605 |
| Richland Grade School District 88A | $1,858,227 | $3,450,994 | |
| Williamson | Herrin Community Unit School District 4 | $2,349,163 | $783,054 |
| Woodford | Riverview Community Consolidated School District 2 | $513,946 | $195,063 |
| TOTALS | $482,346,228 | $490,567,710 |
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