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Mount Prospect pilotEdition 2026-08

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Guided Project Workbench

Start with an ordinary business project. The Workbench checks many kinds of help without turning a program relationship into a promise.

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Step 1

What are you trying to fund?

Choose the closest project. Questions you skip remain open and are carried into the brief as facts to confirm.

  1. 01Replace or upgrade HVACScreen the exact electric and gas measures before purchase, then separate incentives from repayable financing and owner-dependent property tools.
  2. 02Improve storefront or facadeEstablish location, use, ownership, permits, and approval sequence before treating the advertised Village grant or later property-tax effect as feasible.
  3. 03Renovate or build out an interiorSeparate permanent eligible premises work from equipment and operating cost, then test reimbursement, later tax effects, and repayable financing on their own terms.
  4. 04Make the business accessiblePlan compliant work first, then distinguish later federal tax recovery from upfront project financing and municipal navigation.
  5. 05Buy equipmentIdentify the exact equipment, energy effect, useful life, vendor timing, and repayment capacity before comparing incentives with loans.
  6. 06Reduce energy useStart with account-specific assessments, then screen each measure for incentive, owner-controlled financing, and confirm-first local help.
  7. 07Train current employeesDefine the skill gap, workers, provider, cost, and timing before seeking case-managed reimbursement or later apprenticeship tax value.
  8. 08Hire or create apprenticeshipsAlign the job, participant, training plan, registered-apprenticeship structure, and approval timing before the hire begins.
  9. 09Improve technology or cybersecuritySeparate planning and specialist help from the hardware, software, services, and working capital that may require repayable financing.
  10. 10Expand the businessBreak expansion into property, fixed assets, working capital, workforce, and advisory needs so each mechanism is tested against real facts.

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