{"id":208904,"date":"2026-04-24T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:53:36","slug":"brooklyn-illinois-receives-2-million-in-federal-funding-to-transform-community-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/208904\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn, Illinois receives $2 million in federal funding to transform community center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BROOKLYN, Ill. (First Alert 4) &#8211; Brooklyn, Illinois, received $2 million in federal funding to transform its community center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Local leaders hope to turn the building that sits right next to City Hall into a multi-functional space for community activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski, who helped secure the funding, said there will be education programs, workforce development and community engagement events at the transformed space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt will serve as a safe, inclusive space for community members to get access to resources, develop skills, and collaborate on initiatives that will uplift the local economy and promote social cohesion,\u201d Budzinski said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After getting guidance from the federal government, Brooklyn leaders will be able to access the money and then begin construction.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KMOV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, Ill. (First Alert 4) &#8211; Brooklyn, Illinois, received $2 million in federal funding to transform its community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,82827,99,82828,4739,82830,9,24,82829,63],"class_list":["post-208904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-illinois","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-community-center","tag-federal-funding","tag-metro-east","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nikki-budzinski","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}