After the Library Services Act was revamped in 1964, federal dollars also went toward library buildings - the final construction grant was awarded in 1998.

The state has given the museum a $22 million construction grant and board members and volunteers have raised more than $15 million.

By this time, spring of 1990, the library board applied for a construction grant from the Illinois State Library.

A Federal construction grant paid 90 percent of the $9.8 million initial captial cost of the Middle Township facility.

Both Acts were complemented by substantial federal grant funding to improve infrastructure in the form of construction grants.

When the last grant was made in 1919, there were 3,500 libraries in the United States, nearly half of them built with construction grants paid by Carnegie.

The plans face another hurdle in next year's Legislature, which must act on financing for the construction grants and other incentives offered by the law.

The aid, usually based on the number of state residents attending the college, includes construction grants, endowed academic chairs and matching grants for private funds raised.

In 1999, the foundation received a construction grant from the Donald W. Reynolds foundation to build a non-profit foundation center.

The city gave the land and, with the state, a construction grant.