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Rebuild Illinois Capital Program
The Rebuild Illinois Capital Program was passed in June 2019 and invested a total of $25.4 billion into Illinois’ roads and bridges. Rebuild Illinois is creating economic opportunity and improving infrastructure in Illinois while enhancing safety and quality of life throughout the state.
Illinois is the transportation hub of the nation and the sixth largest state in the United States, but has not had a comprehensive, multi-year capital plan since 2009. Overall, Illinois’ infrastructure has a C-rating, and deferred maintenance backlogs for our road and transit systems alone have reached $30 billion. Currently, 74 percent of Illinois roads and 86 percent of bridges are rated as acceptable.
Rebuilding Illinois through a capital plan will create good jobs and develop needed infrastructure in each area of the state, investing $44.8 billion over six years, with $33.2 billion of that amount allocated to transportation, and supporting an estimated 540,000 direct, indirect, and induced jobs throughout the life of the 6-year Rebuild Illinois plan (approximately 90,000 jobs per year). Rebuild Illinois includes:
- $25.3 billion for Illinois’ roads and bridges.
- $1.3 billion for major rail projects and added Grade Crossing Protection projects.
- $558 million for aeronautic facility improvements.
- $150 million in new funding for port improvements.
New The new federal Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act will put an additional $17.8 billion into infrastructure projects funded by Rebuild Illinois. Learn more here.
Rebuild Illinois Grant
In 2020, as part of the Rebuild Illinois Capital Program, the State of Illinois appropriated funds for the purpose of providing capital grants to downstate public transit agencies. These funds are separated into two funding programs, the Multi-Modal Transportation Bond Fund for Downstate Public Transportation in the amount of $204,000,000, and the Downstate Mass Transportation Capital Improvement Fund in the amount of $151,944,000, for a total of $355,944,000.
The Transit Capital Bureau intends to divide the appropriated capital funds to provide the option of three separate calls for projects over the next three to four years.
- Capital Grant Application
- IDOT Rebuild Evaluation Scorecard
- Link to web-based application
- Notice of Funding Opportunity
- Project Schedule Budget Cashflow Statement
- Application PDF Template (INFO ONLY)
- Application Overview & Training webinar slides (PDF) (6/23/2022)
- Application Overview & Training webinar recording (video) (6/23/2022)
Rebuild Illinois Capital Program Highway Accomplishments
If you would like to view past program accomplishment data, please go to the For The Record publication archives.
Miles, Structures and Safety Improvement Accomplishments
Illinois has been improving the highways and addressing bridge needs while focusing on safety for the traveling public. View the dashboards to see the miles, structures, and safety improvement accomplishments on a quarterly and year-end basis.