$6.3 Million In State Funding Will Benefit Deerfield: Rep. Morgan

DEERFIELD, IL — The $45 billion Illinois capital funding plan passed earlier this year includes funding for $1.6 million in capital improvements already completed in Deerfield, as well as more than $6 million in funding for future road projects involving the village, according to the Deerfield Review.

State Rep. Bob Morgan, Deerfield Democrat, told Pioneer Press he helped secure $3.2 million for pavement rehabilitation on Pfingsten Road from Lake Cook Road to East Lake Avenue in Glenview, nearly $2.4 million to replace the Pfingsten Road bridge over the Edens Spur and repair its deck and $737,000 in funding to resurface Waukegan Road between North Avenue and Kates Road.

The bill also covered the cost of $1.35 million in infrastructure improvements in the Woodland Park subdivision completed last month and $225,000 in work on the North Trail subdivision completed in 2015, according to village staff. Morgan told Pioneer Press property tax relief was part of the goal of allocating state dollars to previously planned municipal infrastructure projects.

Last month, the village board raised its share of the average homeowner's property taxes by about $120 over the course of the next three years.

Other local projects earmarked in the bill include $250,000 for Deerfield Fire Department parking lot resurfacing, $225,000 in general infrastructure funding for the village, $100,000 to the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago to replace elevators at the Weinberg Community for Senior Living, 1551 Lake Cook Road; $50,000 for upgrades to building security at the West Deerfield Township building at 601 Deerfield Road; $20,000 for renovations to the American Legion Post 738 building at 849 Waukegan Road; $10,000 for Deerfield Park District general infrastructure and $6,000 for laundry room and door repair at Clearbrook Deerfield, according to a database of $8.7 billion in projects specifically appropriated funding in Senate Bill 262 and House Bill 62 compiled by the Chicago Tribune.

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