In the current IL FY 2025 Budget, the following amounts have been budgeted for non-profit chambers of commerce and local development corporations.
This list comes directly from SB 251 for the 103rd General Assembly.
This article is a deeper dive on one of the recipients of taxpayer funding, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
FY2025
Budget Amount Name
$42,749 AAABNA Austin African American Business Networking Association
$500,000 Andersonville Chamber of Commerce
$250,000 Asian American Chamber of Commerce
$210,868 Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
$250,000 Belmont Central Chamber
$500,000 Black Chamber of Commerce and Training Center
$69,727 Black Chamber of Commerce of Lake County
$200,000 Black Chamber of Commerce of Lake County
$1,500,000 Black Chambers of Commerce
$1,956,300 Business Development
$125,000 Chamber 57 (Matteson, Richton Park, Homewood, Flossmoor Areas)
$200,000 Chatham Business Association
$250,000 Chatham Business Association
$250,000 Chatham Business Association
$500,000 Chatham Business Association
$750,000 Chatham Business Association
$1,000,000 Chatham Business Association
$125,000 Chatham Business Association – Small Business Development, Inc.
$250,000 Chicago 95th Street Business Association
$1,500,000 Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce
$10,000 Chicagoland Czech-American Association
$250,000 Delta Economic Development Center
$300,000 Downtown Springfield Inc
$500,000 Downtown Springfield, Inc
$75,000 Downtown Springfield, Inc.
$250,000 Economic Strategies Development Corporation
$250,000 Economic Strategy Development Corporation
$500,000 Edgewater Chamber of Commerce
$1,000,000 Englewood Chamber of Commerce
$524,600 ESDC 18th Street Development Corp
$200,000 Far South Community Development Corporation
$12,711,850 Far South Community Development Corporation
$750,000 Grand O’Hare Chamber of Commerce
$54,876 Greater Auburn Gresham
$1,000,000 Greater Auburn Gresham
$450,000 Greater Auburn Gresham CDC
$1,680,000 Greater Auburn Gresham CDC
$2,400,000 Greater Auburn Gresham CDC
$60,000 Greater Auburn Gresham Development
$500,000 Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation
$234,775 Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation of Chicago
$250,000 Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation
$150,000 Greater Englewood CDC
$1,000,000 Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce
$1,000,000 Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce — capital improvements.
$300,000 Greater Englewood Community Development Corporation
$250,000 Greater Roseland Chamber of Commerce
$250,000 Greater Roseland Chamber of Commerce
$75,000 Hegewisch Business Association
$100,000 Hegewisch Business Association
$250,000 Hegewisch Business Association
$500,000 Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
$1,500,000 Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
$400,000 Home of Life Community Development Corporation
$600,000 Home of Life Community Development Corporation
$400,000 Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce
$200,000 Lake County Chamber of Commerce
$500,000 Lincoln Square Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce
$168,740 Little City for Community Development
$20,000 Little Village Chamber of Commerce
$250,000 Little Village Chamber of Commerce
$250,000 Little Village Chamber of Commerce
$125,000 Little Village Chamber of Commerce Little Village Community Foundation
$33,680 Logan Square Chamber of Commerce
$250,000 logan Square Chamber of Commerce
$250,000 Mckinley Park Development Council
$150,000 Melrose Park Chamber of Commerce
$200,000 Metro Black Chamber of Commerce
$150,000 Metro East Business Incubator
$1,956,300 Metro East Business Incubator
$150,000 Metro East Business Incubator Inc.
$250,000 Midway Chamber of Commerce
$250,000 Mount Greenwood Community and Business Association
$250,000 Mount Greenwood Community and Business Association
$500,000 Mount Pilgrim Development Corp
$250,000 New Covenant Community Development Corporation
$500,000 New Landmark Community Development Corp
$250,000 Northwest Community Development Center
$150,000 Northwest Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
$150,000 Northwest Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
$500,000 Northwest Side Community Development Corporation
$100,000 Outreach Christian Community Development Center
$1,000,000 Outreach Christian Community Development Corp
$500,000 People’s Community Development Association
$350,000 Peoria Citizens Committee For Economic Opportunity
$400,000 Quad City Community Development
$250,000 Quad Communities Development Corp
$250,000 Quad Communities Development Corporation
$300,000 Quad Communities Development Corporation
$250,000 Quad Community Development Corporation
$1,000,000 Reach Community Development
$200,000 Reach Community Development Corporation
$1,000,000 Reach Community Development Corporation
$1,500,000 Reach Community Development Corporation
$350,000 Rhema Community Development Cooperation
$250,000 Small Business Development Center of Aurora
$200,000 Soaring Eagle Community Development Corporation
$250,000 South Asian American Chamber of Commerce
$3,000,000 South Asian American Chamber of Commerce
$18,056 South Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
$250,000 South Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
$250,000 South Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Illinois
$250,000 South Shore Chamber
$250,000 South Shore Chamber
$250,000 South Shore Chamber
$1,000,000 South Shore Chamber Community Development Corporation – capital Improvements
$150,000 South Shore Chamber of Commerce
$1,000,000 South Shore Chamber of Commerce
$237,196 Southeast Chicago Chamber of Commerce
$250,000 Southeast Chicago Chamber of Commerce
$500,000 Southeast Chicago Chamber of Commerce
$750,000 Southeast Chicago Chamber of Commerce
$1,000,000 Sow Community Development Corporation- infrastructure Improvement
$2,000,000 State Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to Lake Effect Community Development
$500,000 State Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency Fund to the Department Of Commerce And Economic Opportunity for a grant to the Peoria Chamber of Commerce
$1,000,000 State Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for ordinary and contingent expenses of Carter Temple Community Development Corporation
$500,000 The Greater Englewood Chamber of Commerce
$150,000 United Business Association of Midway
$250,000 Uplift Community Development Corporation
$50,000 Uptown Chamber of Commerce
$2,130,000 Westside Community Development Collaboration
$250,000 Wicker Park Chamber of Commerce
$100,000 Rockford River Development Partnership
$73,094,717 Total