| 2007-2008
Grant Winners
COMMUNITY AWARENESS
GRANT
Bryant Cottage State Historic Site, Bement $500
For commemoration of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Johnny Gruelle Raggedy Ann and Andy Museum,
Arcola $500
For website development
CONSERVATION
SUPPORT
Historic Vandalia, Inc., Vandalia $500
For purchase of materials to build storage cabinets
LaSalle County Historical Museum, Utica $500
For purchase of metal shelving racks and acid-free boxes for textiles
Levere Memorial Temple, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation,
Evanston $500
For purchase of acid-free tissue paper and boxes for storage of
116 scrapbooks
Nauvoo Historical Society, Nauvoo $500
For construction and installation of fourteen UV filtering and
insulating glass storm windows
Stephenson County Museum, Freeport $500
For the purchase of acid-free tissue, storage boxes, and cabinets
for storage of textiles
Vliet Center for Lake Bluff History, Lake Bluff
$500
For purchase of supplies to conserve, duplicate, and store archives
White County Historical Society, Carmi $500
To purchase 90% UV protection rollershades to protect textiles
and wood surfaces in the Robert Stewart House
EXHIBITS AND
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Apple River Fort Historic Site, Elizabeth $500
For exhibit Black Hawk’s Raid: The Fort Under Siege
Museums at Lisle Station Park, Lisle $500
For educational program “A Day in an 1850s School House”
Tremont Museum and Historical Society, Tremont
$500
For purchase of Multiplex 8000 display panels for use in exhibits
Vermilion County Museum, Danville $500
For construction of traveling exhibit Celebrating Lincoln: A Year
of Remembrance
Warrenville Historical Society Museum, Warrenville
$495
For printing of an educational program booklet on local artists
TECHNOLOGY
GRANT
Collinsville Historical Museum, Collinsville
$500
For purchase of new laptop computer for Past Perfect software
and other uses
Crystal Lake Historical Society, Crystal Lake
$500
For the conversion of newspaper microfilm to digital format
Grayslake Historical Society, Grayslake $400
For purchase of Past Perfect software
Macon County Historical Society, Decatur $500
For the purchase of new video equipment
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