The Cook County Board on Monday approved $8.2 million in community development block grants for 39 suburbs, most of them in the southern and western portions of the county.
The leading recipients include Chicago Heights, $805,675; Maywood, $676,500; Harvey, $563,200; Blue Island, $559,000; and Phoenix, $414,718.
The funds are earmarked for public projects such as renovation of single- family homes; street lighting; sewer and water system construction; code enforcement; street and alley paving; and construction of parking lots and tot lots.
Twelve community organizations received another $2.7 million in grants, bringing the total amount approved by the board to more than $11 million.
The organizations will use the money for fair-housing counseling, assistance of minority contractors, flood control, modernization of public housing and improvement of senior citizen facilities.
The approved funds represented more than one-third of the $30.7 million requested by suburban groups, said William Doyle, chief administrative officer for the county. The money must be used in areas that will benefit low- and moderate-income people.
The recipient suburbs, including 28 in the south and southwest, 6 in the west and 5 in the north, are as follows:
Bartlett: Curb and gutter construction, $25,000.
Bellwood: Improvements on Boys` Club of Bellwood, $50,000; street construction, $60,000; curb and gutter replacement, $30,000; sidewalk construction, $7,000; water and sewer construction, $6,000; total, $153,000.
Blue Island: Residential renovation, $150,000; Little League recreational facilities, $50,000; parking lot resurfacing and installation of street lights, $75,000; code enforcement, $4,000; street lights for the northeast, $50,000; Fulton Street sewer lining, $230,000; total, $559,000.
Bridgeview: Street construction, Moose area, $250,000.
Burbank: Construction of senior citizens park, $80,000.
Burnham: Component parts for flood and storm drainage sewer, $200,000.
Calumet City: Street lights, $125,000; residential renovation, $175,000;
total, $300,000.
Calumet Park: Alley resurfacing, $157,000; residential renovation, $25,000; total, $182,000.
Chicago Heights: Residential renovation, $500,000; street construction, $305,675; total, 805,675.
Chicago Ridge: Residential renovation, $50,000; street lights, $93,000;
total $143,000.
Crestwood: Residential renovation, $50,000.
Dixmoor: Residential renovation, $100,000; sewer cleaning and televising, $70,000; code enforcement, $2,500; water system upgrading, $30,000; total $202,500.
Dolton: Code enforcement, $2,800; landscaping, $80,000; total, $82,800.
East Hazel Crest: Residential renovation, $150,000; code enforcement, $2,800; total, $152,800.
Forest Park: Street construction, $280,400.
Ford Heights: Residential renovation, $175,000, sewer repairs, $200,000;
total, $375,000.
Harvey: Code enforcement, $3,200; old City Hall renovation, $260,000;
street construction, $200,000; sewer repair, $100,000; total, $563,200.
Hazel Crest: Residential renovation, $85,000.
Hodgkins: Sewer construction, $138,300.
La Grange: Residential renovation, $150,000; renovation and affordable-housing opportunities, $18,000; code enforcement, $2,500; water main replacement, sidewalk installation and parkway repairs, $53,500; total, $224,000.
Lansing: Street construction, $211,000.
Lemont: Street resurfacing, $115,000; residential renovation, $60,000;
total, $175,000.
Markham: Residential renovation, $175,000.
Maywood: Residential renovation, $100,000; code enforcement, $2,200;
waterline reconstruction, $34,500; water main construction, $250,000;
resurfacing of playgrounds, $75,000; parking lot construction, $50,000;
residential renovation, $164,800; total, $676,500.
Morton Grove: Code enforcement, $3,100.
Park Forest: Residential renovation, $100,000; street lights, $225,000;
total $325,000.
Phoenix: Residential renovation, $150,000; code enforcement, $2,500;
street, storm and sewer reconstruction, $262,218; total, $414,718.
Posen: Street lights, $100,000.
Richton Park: Residential renovation, $25,000.
Riverdale: Street reconstruction, $100,000.
River Grove: Street and alley construction, $187,500.
Robbins: Residential renovation, $100,000; technical assistance/
oversight, $150,000; total, $250,000.
Rolling Meadows: Clearbrook Center capital improvements: Vocational Rehab Training Center, $149,500.
South Chicago Heights: Street reconstruction, $103,250.
Steger: Street, storm and sewer construction, $197,068; water main construction, $27,225; total, $224,293.
Streamwood: Residential renovation, $25,000.
Summit: Street lights, $100,000.
Wheeling: Residential renovation, $50,000.
Willow Springs: Street reconstruction and drainage, $69,000.
Municipal total: $8,215,536.
