By Jeremy Coumbes on
January 13, 2021 at 6:09pm
Financial help is coming to several Jacksonville businesses this week.
Forty small businesses located within the City of Jacksonville are receiving up to $10,000 in pandemic relief grants, thanks to a program offered by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
Funded through the Local CURE Economic Support Payments Grant Program, the City of Jacksonville is providing economic support payments to qualified, brick-and-mortar businesses that have experienced interruption of business due to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
In the announcement made this afternoon, Jacksonville Mayor Andy Ezard says he is personally delivering more than $380,000 in grants to 40 Jacksonville businesses this week. He says the assistance is significant, especially as the majority of these businesses are still being negatively impacted by mitigation efforts.