Illinois State Arts Organizations
Enacted Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations
Enacted Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations
Change in Dollars from 2019 to 2020
Percent Change from 2019 to 2020
Additional Notes
The Illinois Arts Council Agency was allocated $50 million in one-time appropriations for capital projects. The Agency is awaiting action from the governor's office before distributing funds over multiple years. |
Author(s): Ingenuity
Date of Publication: May 15, 2019
The goal of the CPS Arts Education Plan is to bring arts education to every child in every CPS school. While the work to expand arts instruction across Chicago Public Schools is ongoing, this report can provide context and construct for a new beginning. By understanding what arts resources existed in schools during the first year of the CPS Arts Education Plan, Ingenuity has established the baseline and can now track progress each year. Beginning in the fall of 2014, annual progress reports will publish changes in instructional time, staffing, partnerships, and funding. Doing so will shed
Author(s): Ingenuity
Date of Publication: Jan 01, 2014
This report examines the level of arts instruction in Chicago Public Schools. It sets the benchmark against which district-wide efforts to expand arts instruction will be measured. Ever since Chicago Public Schools elevated the arts to a core subject in the 2012-2013 school year, students from K-6 grades have been experiencing two hours of weekly instructions in the arts and notice an increase in the number of certified arts instructors in their classrooms. This progress report shows the strides that Chicago is taking with its city-wide Cultural Plan, the
Author(s): Ingenuity
Date of Publication: Jan 01, 2015
The 2012 CPS Arts Education Plan elevated the arts to a core subject and articulates that a quality arts education must include instruction in every art form—visual art, music, dance, and theatre—that is ongoing and sequential. Additionally, this instruction is delivered in the following ways—by credentialed arts instructors teaching discipline specific classes, by non-arts credentialed instructors authentically integrating the arts with other content areas, and by community arts partners connecting students to professional works of art and practices both in school and in
Author(s): Robertson, Kent A., Ph.D.
Date of Publication: Mar 31, 2004
This article reports on how communities apply the elements of the four-point Main Street Approach and discusses factors contributing to their usage and effectiveness.
Author(s): Claus von Zastrow and Helen Janc
Date of Publication: Feb 29, 2004
There is growing concern that the federal No Child Left Behind Acts accountability provisions in mathematics, reading, and science are diverting significant time and resources from other academic subjects. To address this concern, the Council for Basic Education executed a study to collect data about American K-12 students access to a curriculum in the liberal arts.
Author(s): Cypress Research Group
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 2005
The research provides information never before available to form the basis of statewide policy initiatives and priorities for arts education. It also creates a baseline for tracking and measuring progress in our state.
http://www.artsalliance.org/ed_research.shtml
Author(s): Grams, Diane and Warr, Michael
Date of Publication: Feb 28, 2003
This report demonstrates how small budget arts activities play a role in leveraging both local and non-local assets for neighborhood improvement.
Author(s): Prepared By the Civic Federation
Date of Publication: May 15, 2019
This report analyzes the public funding for 12 major cultural institutions in Cook County that receive property tax-based funding from the Chicago Park District or the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. It makes recommendations for alternative funding sources that could stabilize the public funding for these and other institutions.
Author(s): al Chalabi, Margery
Date of Publication: Aug 31, 2002
In this paper, the author discusses the most recent change affecting American central cities and their downtowns the cultural renaissance.
Author(s): Tresser, Tom
Date of Publication: Aug 31, 2003
Framing the Illinois Creative Economy is the fourth in a series of nine articles on the Creative Economy.
Author(s): Richard LLoyd
Date of Publication: Nov 30, 2002
Drawing on an extended case study of Chicagos Wicker Park neighborhood, this article develops the concept of neo-bohemia that creates the context for the redevelopment of former industrial spaces in Chicago.
Author(s): Carlin, Brad, Editor
Date of Publication: Dec 31, 2004
Document provides samples of admission tax legislation levied on all types of professional public performances or events in Boulder, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Santa Cruz, California; Seattle, Washington; and Saint Louis, Missouri.
Author(s): Tresser, Tom
Date of Publication: Oct 31, 2003
Chicago: Arts & Commerce - A Dynamic 21st Century Economy is the fifth in a series of nine articles on the Creative Economy.
Lara Davis
Robert L. Lynch
This article has been co-written with Michelle T. Boone, Commissioner with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and originally published by The Huffington Post on June 12, 2o15.
Doug Israel
Urban school districts, such as New York and Chicago, are taking bold steps to expand the school day curriculum and once again invest in arts education. After years of budget cuts, and a narrowing of curriculum at public schools across the country, cities are taking action.
Una McAlinden
Although each of us can probably recall a time when success could be defined as not losing (too much) ground, we all want to feel like our efforts have been worth the commitment and have made a lasting difference in some way.
Lauren Hess
Lucy Wang
Editor’s Note: Lucy Wang is the 2015 recipient of the NABE Scholarship, presented annually by Americans for the Arts and the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Foundation to a student of both economics and the arts.
Cultural districts are the heartbeat of a city. They are the distinctive part that makes your city unique and reveals the character and spirit of your town.
Jeff Poulin
In the Arts Education world, Chicago has been in the news a lot lately. To best understand what has gone on the past 2 or so years, we have compiled a concise list of events, news stories and reports to tell the tale for all of us non-Chicagoans.
Nancy Ng
Wendy Taliaferro
Nina Ozlu Tunceli
Katie Kurcz
Margie Johnson Reese
I am a registered card carrying bureaucrat. I don’t do passion. The job isn’t what you’re excited about; it’s what you accomplish. My staff might disagree with this self-assessment especially after summer 2014.
Deb Vaughn
Robert L. Lynch
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