| 100 Years of Breathing Life into the Community | $10,000 |
| 1913 Massacre | $10,000 |
| A French Heritage Celebration | $2,000 |
| A History of Public Art in Knox County | $2,500 |
| A Pilot Literary & Visual Arts Circle for Young Men | $10,000 |
| African American Settlement of Massac County | $2,000 |
| Art and Artifact | $4,150 |
| Art of Survival | $2,000 |
| Audience Education | $2,000 |
| Bending Gender Film Series | $2,000 |
| Black is .... | $2,000 |
| Broken Bodies | $2,000 |
| Bronzeville Oral History Project | $10,000 |
| Caribbean Stories | $10,000 |
| Chicago Disability History Exhibition | $10,000 |
| Chicago Humanities Festival XVII: Home & Away | $75,000 |
| Chicago's Labor Trail, Stage II | $10,000 |
| Community Engagement Initiative | $2,000 |
| Community Engagement Initiative | $2,000 |
| Cultural Connections | $10,000 |
| Douglas Park Community Center | $4,000 |
| Early History of the Illinois Indians | $4,200 |
| Effingham Audio Tour | $2,000 |
| Embarras Valley Film Festival and Conference | $2,500 |
| Fa Sol La:Shape Note and Other Music Traditions | $2,500 |
| Firebirds and Rubies | $10,000 |
| Frances Willard Stautue 100th Anniversary Celebration | $2,500 |
| Free Frank and New Philadelphia | $4,000 |
| Greater Access and Increased Knowledge | $5,000 |
| Harvest Story Hayride | $1,500 |
| History Day Camp | $2,500 |
| Illinois Southern Shore | $9,856 |
| In The Family | $10,000 |
| Industry of the Ordinary - Text Book | $2,000 |
| Intellectual Community Development II | $10,000 |
| Irish American Symposium: The Celtic Irish Cosmos | $10,000 |
| Islam in Southeast Asia | $9,800 |
| Lake Land College Arts and Humanities Series | $10,000 |
| Language of Lithics | $2,000 |
| Latino Film Festival | $1,900 |
| Learning From North Lawndale | $10,000 |
| Lincoln and the Civil War: November 1864 | $2,000 |
| Making Peace: Meditations on Activism | $2,000 |
| Museum of Funeral Customs 2005 Program Series | $1,441 |
| Narrative and Place | $10,000 |
| Never Ignored | $4,000 |
| Nuestro Mundo Escrito (Our World in Writing) | $2,500 |
| One Book, One Rockford | $10,000 |
| One Community, One Author | $2,500 |
| Our Immigrant Story: South Asians in Illinois 1945-1965 | $2,000 |
| Passages | $3,408 |
| Peoria Reads! | $2,500 |
| Pioneering Educators | $4,175 |
| Poetry Center Audio Archive and CD | $6,000 |
| Popular Defamation | $10,000 |
| Prudence Burns Burrell | $10,000 |
| Remember Virden | $10,000 |
| Saturday Salon Series | $6,000 |
| Service Workers Project | $10,000 |
| Slippery Characters | $9,990 |
| Ta Rembetika | $10,000 |
| Technical Assistance Grant | $500 |
| Technical Assistance Grant | $500 |
| Tell the Story: The Chicago SNCC History Project | $5,000 |
| Ten Sisters, A True Story | $10,000 |
| The 1960's: A Multi-Media View from Capitol Hill | $2,000 |
| The Block Documents | $8,500 |
| The Eastland Disaster | $2,000 |
| The Postmodern Theater | $2,000 |
| The Record Row: The History of Chicago Soul Exhibition | $10,000 |
| The Second Annual Chicago Taiko Legacy | $2,500 |
| The State of the Black Arts in Chicago | $5,000 |
| The Summer Ambassador Project | $10,000 |
| The Taino Project | $2,500 |
| Towards an Oral History of the Civil Rights Struggle in Mexican Pilsen | $2,500 |
| Visions and Dreams | $2,500 |
| Voices In Time | $10,000 |
| Waking the Sleeping Soul | $10,000 |
| War Letters | $1,980 |
| Wasco Traditions | $2,000 |
| What's Hiding Under the Bed? | $2,450 |
| Winter Lecture Series | $2,000 |
| Write On | $10,000 |
| Writing Off the Charts | $7,000 |
