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Grants

Chicago Small Business Improvement Fund (SBIF)

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
$250,000

Reimbursement grant up to USD 150,000 for commercial properties and USD 250,000 for industrial properties.

Funder

City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development

public · city

Deadline: Fixed cut-off dates — Rounds open by TIF district as funds become available; the city publishes open districts and deadlines on the SBIF page.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Property must be in an eligible TIF district; commercial businesses up to USD 9M gross annual sales; industrial up to 200 full-time employees. Applications in monthly TIF-district rollouts.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The EU SME definition (Recommendation 2003/361)

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/small-business-improvement-fund/home.html

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: www.chicago.gov

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