APPROPRIATIONS FY 2025
Below, find disclosures related to 2025 Community Project Funding:
Congressman Schneider submitted the below CPF requests to the House Appropriations Committee, in alphabetical order by recipient for FY 2025:
Project Name: Antioch Downtown Improvement - Lake and Main
Request Amount: $580,694
Recipient: Village of Antioch
Recipient Address: 874 Main St, Antioch, Illinois
Project Description: Antioch is completing the final stage of their downtown corridor revamp, to reconstruct and/or replace more than 25,000 square feet of sidewalk infrastructure. This will establish safe and accessible pedestrian routes from Orchard and Main and Lake and Main, to the Main Street corridor.
Financial Disclosure Statement Antioch Downtown Improvement
Project Name: Antioch Township Sanitary Sewer Improvements
Request Amount: $5,000,000
Recipient: Lake County Public Works
Recipient Address: 650 W Winchester Road, Libertyville, IL 60048
Project Description: Improve the Antioch Township Sanitary sewer system.
Financial Disclosure Statement Antioch Township Sewer Improvements
Project Name: College of Lake County Urban Farm Center
Request Amount: $15,000,000
Recipient: College of Lake County
Recipient Address: 34 N Sheridan Rd, Waukegan, IL 60085
Project Description: The College of Lake County is seeking to to begin construction on an Urban Farm Center (UFC) in downtown Waukegan. UFC is a collaborative project that will provide Lake County with a more resilient food system through training and infrastructure that address poor health outcomes for residents, the loss of food production in the county, and the need for more workforce development.
Financial Disclosure Statement Urban Farm
Project Name: Fuller Road Reconstruction with Ped Improvements
Request Amount: $5,000,000
Recipient: Village of Gurnee
Recipient Address: 325 O'Plaine Rd, Gurnee, IL 60031
Project Description: Gurnee is planning to reconstruct Fuller Road and add an 8 foot pedestrian path the entire length of Fuller Road, as well as implement drainage improvements, pedestrian improvements and road realigning to make Gurnee more walkable.
Financial Disclosure Statement Gurnee Fuller Road.
Project Name: George B Prindle Water Treatment Plant, Intake Improvements
Request Amount: $4,330,000
Recipient: City of Highland Park
Recipient Address: 1707 St Johns Ave, Highland Park, IL 60035
Project Description: Highland Park is planning to extend the Water Plant’s primary (54-inch diameter) Lake Michigan intake to shore, build a new shore-well including traveling screen and baffles to capture large debris and sand and repair the Zebra Mussel control system feed line.
Financial Disclosure Statement Highland Park Prindle Water Treatment
Project Name: Improving Natural Resources at Gander Mountain Forest Preserve
Request Amount: $1,300,000
Recipient: Lake County Forest Preserve District
Recipient Address: 1899 W Winchester Rd, Libertyville, IL 60048
Project Description: The Lake County Forest Preserve would like to complete ecological restoration on 250 acres at Gander Mountain Forest Preserve.
Gander Mountain Financial Disclosure
Project Name: Lake Bluff Downtown Flood Mitigation Project
Request Amount: $13,000,000
Recipient: Village of Lake Bluff
Recipient Address: 40 E Center Ave, Lake Bluff, IL 60044
Project Description: Lake Bluff would like to purchase a new upsized storm sewer and realign the storm sewer north along Sheridan Road and east within the North Ave right-of-way toward Lake Michigan.
Financial Disclosure Statement Lake Bluff Flood Mitigation
Project Name: North Chicago Lead Service Line and Water Main Replacement Project
Request Amount: $3,500,000
Recipient: City of North Chicago
Recipient Address: 1850 Lewis Ave, North Chicago, IL 60064
Project Description: North Chicago needs to remove and replace lead service lines with safe pipe materials. The project will also replace old, deteriorated, and undersized water mains with larger pipes that are adequately sized for modern needs.
Financial Disclosure Statement North Chicago LSLR
Project Name: North Chicago Police Two-Way Radio Communications Modernization
Request Amount: $446,620
Recipient: City of North Chicago
Recipient Address: 1850 Lewis Ave, North Chicago, IL 60064
Project Description: North Chicago needs to modernize their police radio technology to facilitate seamless communication between different agencies and jurisdictions.
Financial Disclosure Statement North Chicago Two Way Radios
Project Name: North Suburban Affordable Housing Hub
Request Amount: $1,000,000
Recipient: Lake County
Recipient Address: 18 N County St, Waukegan, IL 60085
Project Description: Lake County would like to build a one-stop-shop to provide HUD-certified housing counseling and education. This hub will assist with down payment assistance programs, rental assistance, affordable rental housing, affordable homeownership programs, home repair and accessibility programs, foreclosure prevention, financial counseling, community land trust programming and inclusionary housing administration.
Financial Disclosure Statement North Suburban Affordable Housing Hub
Project Name: Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility Upgrades
Request Amount: $3,500,000
Recipient: Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility, Managed by the Village of Fox Lake
Recipient Address: 200 Industrial Ave, Fox Lake, IL 60020
Project Description: Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility needs to upgrade their compressor, blower system with brand new blowers.
Financial Disclosure Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility Upgrades
Project Name: Round Lake Beach Police Department Communications Technology Modernization
Request Amount: $240,000
Recipient: Round Lake Beach Police Department
Recipient Address: 1947 N Municipal Way, Round Lake Beach, IL 60073
Project Description: The Round Lake Beach Police Department would like to install in-car mobile data terminals for each of the patrol squads and each of the detectives to enhance their ability to receive emergency calls and obtain important information in the field.
Project Name: Silver Creek Habitat Restoration and Flood Reduction Project (McHenry County Conservation District)
Request Amount: $300,000
Recipient: McHenry County Conservation District
Recipient Address: 18410 US Highway 14, Woodstock, IL 60098
Project Description: The McHenry Conservation District seeks to restore ecological diversity in wetlands and native prairies along the floodplain of Silver Creek, a main tributary to Nippersink Creek in north central McHenry County, through invasive brush and fallen tree removal as well as stream bank planting.
Financial Disclosure Statement Silver Creek Habitat Restoration
Project Name: Spring Grove Wastewater Treatment Plant
Request Amount: $10,000,000
Recipient: Village of Spring Grove
Recipient Address: 7401 Meyer Rd, Spring Grove, IL
Project Description: The Village of Spring Grove seeks to build a new wastewater treatment plant. Completion of this project will bring several thousand new residents to the village through the development of higher density, more affordable housing and support the expansion of Scot Forge allowing for hundreds of long- and short-term jobs which will also bring those employees to the Village as new residents.
Financial Disclosure Statement Spring Grove Wastewaster Treatment
Project Name: Village of Wilmette Lead Service Line Replacements
Request Amount: $3,000,000
Recipient: Village of Wilmette
Recipient Address: 1200 Wilmette Ave, Wilmette, IL 60091
Project Description: Wilmette needs to eliminate lead service lines for residential drinking water.