Congressionally Directed Spending Requests - Fiscal Year 2027

 

AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Name: Maternal Care Access Initiative
Recipient Name: Deaconess Illinois Medical Center
Project Location: Marion, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,966,000
Project Purpose: To help fund equipment costs for the Deaconess Regional Healthcare Services Illinois Inc’s obstetrician (OB) unit in Marion, Illinois.

Project Name: Lawrenceville Public Works Vehicle Project
Recipient Name: City of Lawrenceville, Illinois
Project Location: Lawrenceville, Illinois
Amount Requested: $375,000
Project Purpose: The Lawrenceville Public Works Vehicle project will help the City of Lawrenceville, Illinois, purchase a new public works truck to ensure the city can perform necessary maintenance on its sewer lines.

Project Name: Childcare Center Expansion Project
Recipient Name: Economic Growth Corporation
Project Location: Mt. Carroll, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2 million
Project Purpose: To help the Economic Growth Corporation expand its existing childcare development center in Mt. Carroll, Illinois.

Project Name: Outpatient Healthcare Services Expansion Project
Recipient Name: Mason District Hospital, Critical Access Hospital in Havana, Illinois
Project Location: Havana, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1.7 million
Project Purpose: To help strengthen outpatient healthcare services in Havana, Illinois, by constructing a new, centrally located provider building on the Mason District Hospital campus.

Project Name: Water Tower Lead Pain Abatement Project
Recipient Name: Village of West Salem, Illinois
Project Location: West Salem, Illinois
Amount Requested: $600,000
Project Purpose: Project funding will be used to abate lead paint on the Village of West Salem, Illinois’s, water tower.

Project Name: Food Bank Expansion Project
Recipient Name: Midwest Food Bank
Project Location: Morton, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1 million
Project Purpose: Funding will help the Midwest Food Bank in Morton, Illinois, expand its facility and strengthen disaster relief services while increasing support for nonprofit partners across the region.

Project Name: Main Street Community Facilities Program
Recipient Name: City of Sumner, Illinois
Project Location: Sumner, Illinois
Amount Requested: $350,000
Project Purpose: Funding will help the City of Sumner, Illinois demolish two dilapidated buildings that are situated in the city’s main street and convert the land the buildings are on into a covered, outdoor, community space.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE AND SCIENCE AND RELATED AGENCIES

Project Name: STEM Research Laboratory Facility Upgrades
Recipient Name: Illinois State University
Project Location: Normal, Illinois
Amount Requested: $850,000
Project Purpose: Funding for the STEM Research Laboratory Facility Upgrades will help Illinois State University fund a run-around loop HVAC system in two large teaching laboratory classrooms within the STEM building.

Project Name: Upper Mississippi Center Equipment and Programming
Recipient Name: Augustana College
Project Location: Rock Island, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,152,000
Project Purpose: Funding for the Upper Mississippi Center Equipment and Programming project will help Augustana College purchase advanced analytical instrumentation to improve regional water testing along the Mississippi River.

Recipient Name: Illinois Three-Dimensional Mesonet Development
Recipient Name: Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
Project Location: Champaign, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2.1 million
Project Purpose: Funding for the Illinois Three-Dimensional Mesonet will help the University of Illinois launch the first phase of a three-phase statewide project to create a network of fully automated environmental observing stations across Illinois that have the capability to observe the lower atmosphere.

Project Name: Midwest Quantum Technology Workforce and Innovation Lab
Recipient Name: Northern Illinois University
Project Location: Dekalb, Illinois
Amount Requested: $2.6 million
Project Purpose: Funding for the Midwest Quantum Technology Workforce and Innovation Lab will help the Northern Illinois University (NIU) retrofit an existing lab space in NIU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to support research, workforce and technology development in emerging quantum communication systems.

Project Name: Southern Illinois University-School of Medicine Office of Police and Security Equipment Upgrades
Recipient Name: Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University Associate Dean for Research
Project Location: Springfield, Illinois
Amount Requested: $137,000
Project Purpose: Funding for Police and Security Equipment Upgrades will help the Southern Illinois University-School of Medicine Office of Police and Security purchase 13 P25-compliant portable radios and a new security team vehicle.

Project Name: Computing Infrastructure and Data Storage Upgrades
Recipient Name: Loyola University Chicago
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,235,000
Project Purpose: Funding for the Infrastructure and Data Storage Upgrades Project would help support the development of Loyola University’s high-performance computing infrastructure through the acquisition of GPU-based servers and research data storage.

Project Name: Public Safety Equipment Upgrades
Recipient Name: Macoupin County Sheriff’s Office
Project Location: Carlinville, Illinois
Amount Requested: $750,000
Project Purpose: Funding for public safety equipment upgrades will help the Macoupin County Sheriff’s Department upgrade the department’s communications infrastructure, body-worn cameras, digital evidence tools, detention facility security and emergency response technology.

Project Name: Quantum Readiness and Cyberinfrastructure Improvement Programming
Recipient Name: Chicago State University
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1.2 million

Project Purpose: Funding for the Quantum Readiness and Cyberinfrastructure Improvement Programing will help the Chicago State University restore and modernize its aging cyberinfrastructure through the Quantum Readiness and Cyberinfrastructure Improvement Program.

Project Name: Arboretum Research and Restoration Upgrades
Recipient Name: The Morton Arboretum
Project Location: Lisle, Illinois
Amount Requested: $750,000
Project Purpose: Funding for the arboretum research and restoration project will help fund facility expansions, research and trail system upgrades at the Morton Arboretum.

Project Name: Home Modifications for Disabled Survivors
Recipient Name: City of Chicago
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois
Amount Requested: $1,208,000
Project Purpose: Funding for the Home Modifications for Disabled Survivors project will help the City of Chicago provide accessible home modifications for survivors of gun and community violence who acquire disabilities.