Grant Recipients
| Title | Grantee Organization | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Years of Breathing Life into the Community | American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago | $10,000 |
| 1913 Massacre | The Center for Independent Documentary | $10,000 |
| A French Heritage Celebration | Dickson Mounds Museum | $2,000 |
| A History of Public Art in Knox County | Galesburg Civic Art Center | $2,500 |
| A Pilot Literary & Visual Arts Circle for Young Men | Literature for All of Us | $10,000 |
| African American Settlement of Massac County | Brookport Library | $2,000 |
| Art and Artifact | Tarble Arts Center Eastern Illinois University | $4,150 |
| Art of Survival | The Women's Center, Inc. | $2,000 |
| Audience Education | Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral | $2,000 |
| Bending Gender Film Series | Center on Halsted | $2,000 |
| Black is .... | Thick Routes Performance Collage | $2,000 |
| Broken Bodies | Links Hall Studio | $2,000 |
| Bronzeville Oral History Project | DePaul University | $10,000 |
| Caribbean Stories | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $10,000 |
| Chicago Disability History Exhibition | University of Illinois at Chicago | $10,000 |
| Chicago Humanities Festival XVII: Home & Away | Chicago Humanities Festival | $75,000 |
| Chicago's Labor Trail, Stage II | University of Illinois at Chicago | $10,000 |
| Community Engagement Initiative | Lifeline Productions, Inc. | $2,000 |
| Community Engagement Initiative | Lifeline Productions, Inc. | $2,000 |
| Cultural Connections | The Field Museum of Natural History | $10,000 |
| Douglas Park Community Center | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $4,000 |
| Early History of the Illinois Indians | Nipundikan | $4,200 |
| Effingham Audio Tour | Effingham Festival Committee | $2,000 |
| Embarras Valley Film Festival and Conference | Coles County Arts Council | $2,500 |
| Fa Sol La:Shape Note and Other Music Traditions | Volunteer Pioneers | $2,500 |
| Firebirds and Rubies | Cycle Wiz Factory of Learning | $10,000 |
| Frances Willard Stautue 100th Anniversary Celebration | Frances Willard Historical Association | $2,500 |
| Free Frank and New Philadelphia | Free Frank New Philadelphia Historic Preservation Foundation, Inc. | $4,000 |
| Greater Access and Increased Knowledge | Columbia College Chicago | $5,000 |
| Harvest Story Hayride | Elgin Public Museum of Natural History and Anthropology | $1,500 |
| History Day Camp | McLean County Museum of History | $2,500 |
| Illinois Southern Shore | Southern Illinois University at Carbondale | $9,856 |
| In The Family | Kartemquin Films | $10,000 |
| Industry of the Ordinary - Text Book | Links Hall Studio | $2,000 |
| Intellectual Community Development II | Islamic Thought & Science Institute | $10,000 |
| Irish American Symposium: The Celtic Irish Cosmos | Irish American Heritage Center | $10,000 |
| Islam in Southeast Asia | Northern Illinois University | $9,800 |
| Lake Land College Arts and Humanities Series | Lake Land College | $10,000 |
| Language of Lithics | Schingoethe Center for Native American Culture | $2,000 |
| Latino Film Festival | Shimer College | $1,900 |
| Learning From North Lawndale | Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) | $10,000 |
| Lincoln and the Civil War: November 1864 | Pritzker Military Library | $2,000 |
| Making Peace: Meditations on Activism | Thousand Waves Martial Arts and Self-Defense Center, NFP | $2,000 |
| Museum of Funeral Customs 2005 Program Series | Museum of Funeral Customs | $1,441 |
| Narrative and Place | Young Chicago Authors (YCA) | $10,000 |
| Never Ignored | University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign | $4,000 |
| Nuestro Mundo Escrito (Our World in Writing) | The Latino Organization of the Southwest | $2,500 |
| One Book, One Rockford | Rockford Public Library | $10,000 |
| One Community, One Author | Harrisburg Public District Library | $2,500 |
| Our Immigrant Story: South Asians in Illinois 1945-1965 | South Asian American Policy and Research Institute | $2,000 |
| Passages | Chippiannock Cemetery Heritage Foundation | $3,408 |
| Peoria Reads! | Common Place | $2,500 |
| Pioneering Educators | Morgan County Historical Society | $4,175 |
| Poetry Center Audio Archive and CD | The Poetry Center of Chicago | $6,000 |
| Popular Defamation | Free Street Programs | $10,000 |
| Prudence Burns Burrell | Educational Film Center | $10,000 |
| Remember Virden | Northern Illinois University | $10,000 |
| Saturday Salon Series | Next Theatre Company | $6,000 |
| Service Workers Project | Illinois Labor History Society | $10,000 |
| Slippery Characters | JazzReach, Inc. | $9,990 |
| Ta Rembetika | Hellenic Museum & Cultural Center | $10,000 |
| Technical Assistance Grant | Beyondmedia Education | $500 |
| Technical Assistance Grant | Winnetka Historical Society | $500 |
| Tell the Story: The Chicago SNCC History Project | Sixty-Sixty-Five, Inc. | $5,000 |
| Ten Sisters, A True Story | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $10,000 |
| The 1960's: A Multi-Media View from Capitol Hill | The Dirksen Congressional Center | $2,000 |
| The Block Documents | Illinois State Historical Society | $8,500 |
| The Eastland Disaster | Eastland Disaster Historical Society | $2,000 |
| The Postmodern Theater | Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture | $2,000 |
| The Record Row: The History of Chicago Soul Exhibition | Chicago Blues Museum | $10,000 |
| The Second Annual Chicago Taiko Legacy | Asian Improv aRts Midwest (AIRMW) | $2,500 |
| The State of the Black Arts in Chicago | Columbia College Chicago | $5,000 |
| The Summer Ambassador Project | We The People Media | $10,000 |
| The Taino Project | Puerto Rican Arts Alliance | $2,500 |
| Towards an Oral History of the Civil Rights Struggle in Mexican Pilsen | Casa Aztlan | $2,500 |
| Visions and Dreams | Carbondale Community Arts, Incorporated | $2,500 |
| Voices In Time | Beyondmedia Education | $10,000 |
| Waking the Sleeping Soul | Quad City Arts, Inc | $10,000 |
| War Letters | Charleston Community Theatre Company | $1,980 |
| Wasco Traditions | Mitchell Museum of the American Indian | $2,000 |
| What's Hiding Under the Bed? | Ela Area Public Library | $2,450 |
| Winter Lecture Series | Pleasant Home Foundation | $2,000 |
| Write On | The HistoryMakers | $10,000 |
| Writing Off the Charts | Neighborhood Writing Alliance | $7,000 |
