Mount Prospect project file
Buy equipment
Identify the exact equipment, energy effect, useful life, vendor timing, and repayment capacity before comparing incentives with loans.
Before you spend: Preserve the quote and delay orders when an incentive needs reservation or preapproval; every financing route remains repayable and underwritten.
Assistance layers
Mechanisms worth sorting for this project
These are supported relationships, not eligibility decisions. The Workbench asks the facts that change whether a lead is current, conditional, specialized, or historical.
Sequence 1
ComEd Small Business Energy Savings
Authorized ComEd service providers assess eligible small-business facilities and guide qualifying electric-efficiency upgrades through installation and incentive processing.
- Mechanism
- A bundled utility pathway combining a no-cost assessment, measure selection, installation support, and incentive processing.
- What it does
- Lower the project cost
- Why it appears
- Qualifying electric-efficiency equipment may receive assessment and incentive support.
- Administrator
- Commonwealth Edison Company
Before you spend: Confirm reservation or preapproval before ordering equipment, signing a contract, or starting work.
- Program lifecycle
- Current / rolling
- Visitor treatment
- Worth checking now
This current pathway still requires program-specific eligibility and sequence checks.
Confirm ComEd reservation or preapproval before a project commitment
Date or rangeBefore ordering equipment, signing a contract, or beginning work when the measure requires reservation or preapproval
A commitment made before the required ComEd sequence may make the measure ineligible; the authorized provider must confirm the exact rule.
Date last verified
General 2026 Kickstart preapplication period ended March 31, 2026
Date or range2025-11-17 through 2026-03-31
Do not present the general Kickstart bonus as available; evaluate the underlying current small-business pathway and any measure-specific reservation separately.
Date last verified
Sequence 2
SBA Microloan Program
Approved nonprofit intermediaries make small repayable loans for working capital and eligible equipment or supplies; the intermediary sets credit decisions and terms.
- Mechanism
- Loan
- What it does
- Finance the remaining cost
- Why it appears
- An intermediary may make a repayable Microloan for eligible machinery or equipment.
- Administrator
- U.S. Small Business Administration and approved nonprofit intermediaries
- Program lifecycle
- Current / rolling
- Visitor treatment
- Worth checking now
This current pathway still requires program-specific eligibility and sequence checks.
Sequence 3
Advantage Illinois
Participating lenders may use state participation or a state guarantee to reduce lender risk on an otherwise qualifying small-business loan.
- Mechanism
- Loan
- What it does
- Finance the remaining cost
- Why it appears
- A participating lender may use state support within a repayable equipment loan.
- Administrator
- Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
- Program lifecycle
- Current / rolling
- Visitor treatment
- Worth checking now
This current pathway still requires program-specific eligibility and sequence checks.
Sequence 4
Cook County Small Business Source
The Source connects Cook County small businesses to no-cost one-on-one advisers, resources, events, and capital-readiness help.
- Mechanism
- Advising
- What it does
- Get free expertise
- Why it appears
- County advisers can help prepare a capital request and identify relevant lending partners.
- Administrator
- Cook County Bureau of Economic Development
- Program lifecycle
- Current / rolling
- Visitor treatment
- Worth checking now
This current pathway still requires program-specific eligibility and sequence checks.
Sequence 80
Cook County BRITE
BRITE may fund reviewer-recommended pollution-prevention, energy, water, or equipment improvements for qualifying suburban Cook County businesses in named industries, but the remaining 2026 timing is urgent and unconfirmed.
- Mechanism
- Grant
- What it does
- Lower the project cost
- Why it appears
- BRITE can support reviewer-recommended equipment and pollution-prevention improvements for a short list of suburban Cook County industries.
- Administrator
- Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability
Before you spend: Do not order equipment or rely on an award until Cook County confirms current feasibility, eligible scope, agreement timing, and funds.
- Program lifecycle
- Specialized
- Visitor treatment
- Specialized possibility
This specialized pathway requires its stated purpose or industry fit before reliance.
BRITE funds must be spent within 100 days of agreement or by September 30, 2026
Date or rangeWithin 100 days of agreement or by 2026-09-30, whichever comes first
Because the program review can take 30 to 60 days, a new award may not fit the remaining schedule; confirm feasibility immediately and do not assume funds or an award.
Date last verified
Ask the administrator: Can a new Mount Prospect applicant still complete the 30-to-60-day review and spend an award within 100 days of agreement or by September 30, 2026?
Stop: this is not a current lead. Read every material date and consequence before opening the historical record.
Manufacturing Reinvented was not accepting applications on August 27, 2026
Date or rangeStatus checked 2026-08-27
Keep the record historical and expose no Apply action unless Cook County later publishes and a new edition verifies a reopened application period.
Date last verified
Sequence 92
Manufacturing Reinvented
Cook County's official program surface states that Manufacturing Reinvented is not accepting applications.
- Mechanism
- Historical manufacturing-support opportunity retained only to stop a stale search result.
- What it does
- Avoid a stale or misleading lead
- Why it appears
- A manufacturer may encounter the program in search, but Cook County says applications are not being accepted.
- Administrator
- Cook County Government
- Program lifecycle
- Closed / historical
- Visitor treatment
- Expired, closed, on hold, or historical
Manufacturing Reinvented was not accepting applications on August 27, 2026
Stop: this is not a current lead. Read every material date and consequence before opening the historical record.
The 2025 Made in Illinois round is closed; no 2026 round was verified
Date or range2025 round closed; no 2026 round found as of 2026-08-27
Do not carry the 2025 opportunity into current results; a future round requires a new authoritative program and application check.
Date last verified
Sequence 93
Made in Illinois Grant Program
The 2025 Made in Illinois round is closed, and no 2026 round was found in the verified official program surface.
- Mechanism
- Historical manufacturing opportunity retained only to stop a stale search result.
- What it does
- Avoid a stale or misleading lead
- Why it appears
- A manufacturer may find the 2025 opportunity, but that round is closed and no 2026 round was verified.
- Administrator
- Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center
- Program lifecycle
- Closed / historical
- Visitor treatment
- Expired, closed, on hold, or historical
The 2025 Made in Illinois round is closed; no 2026 round was verified