Advocacy
Sign the Letter to Governor Pritzker
Update: The sign-on window is now closed. Thank you to the 2,200 artists and creative leaders who signed!
With an uncertain budget season approaching in Illinois, we must band together as a sector now to preserve the historic gains achieved for the arts in last year’s budget.Â
Context
A newly issued memorandum from the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget (GOMB) now directs state agencies to identify further cuts to their submitted budget requests for the 2026 fiscal year, citing GOMB’s recent fiscal policy report projecting a $3 billion shortfall and flattened revenue projections. This memorandum states the specific intention to focus on cuts to grant programs, line-item grants, and cuts to programs whose budgets have increased in recent years. These instructions highlight significant challenges for maintaining critical and hard-won increases to arts funding in Illinois amidst looming budgetary constraints.
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In January, Arts Alliance sent a letter signed by over 2,000 creative sector leaders to Governor Pritzker that calls for preserving funding in this year’s state budget.
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