LAKE COUNTY CONSORTIUM
The Lake County Consortium, with its participating jurisdictions of Lake County and the
cities of North Chicago and Waukegan, has been collaborating extensively with a broad
range of for-profit and nonprofit agencies, governmental bodies, and local citizens to
complete this AI.
Three jurisdictions in Lake County receive Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) funds under the entitlement allocation: Lake County, as an urban county, and
the cities of North Chicago and Waukegan, each as independent entitlements. These
three CDBG jurisdictions regularly coordinate and collaborate on planning and
implementation of CDBG-funded community development activities. These three units
of local government have also formed a HOME Consortium for the purposes of carrying
out housing activities funded under the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. The
cities of North Chicago and Waukegan collaborate with Lake County on countywide
homeless planning and grant administration activities.
Lake County serves as the coordinating unit for the administration of the Lake County
Consortium and of its AI. In this AI, the cities of North Chicago and Waukegan are
profiled in depth, as data and survey results permit. Once the countywide impediments
and proposed action steps are documented, AREA and community development staff
will work directly with the cities of North Chicago and Waukegan to identify the
impediments and proposed action steps specific to each entitlement jurisdiction. The
North Chicago and Waukegan-specific impediments and action steps will be included
as appendices to the countywide document.
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APPLIED REAL ESTATE ANALYSIS, INC.
LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS