Healing Illinois Renews $4.5 Million Grant Initiative to Advance Racial Healing in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announces the relaunch of Healing Illinois. This statewide effort, managed in partnership with the Field Foundation of Illinois, will address racial disparities by distributing $4.5 million in grants for organizations to begin or continue the work of racial healing.

The Field Foundation of Illinois and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced the 2024 “A Road Together” (ART) grant recipients. In the second year of a five-year, $15 million partnership, 51 Chicago-based arts and culture nonprofits will receive $1.6 million in ART funding; 25 organizations will receive three-year grants, and 26 organizations will receive one-year grants.