Which southwest IL businesses received COVID-19 loans? Here’s where you can search

Which metro-east businesses and nonprofits received federal Paycheck Protection Program loans? Use the search tool below to look them up by city, business name or zip code.

The United States Treasury only provided ranges of loan from $150,000 to $350,000, $350,000 to $1 million, $1-2 million, $2-5 million and $5-10 million. Names and addresses of businesses are available for those loans. The treasury specified loan amounts below $150,000, but did not provide business names at that level.

At least half a billion dollars and as much as $1 billion from the Paycheck Protection Program went to 7,590 southwestern Illinois businesses and nonprofits to help them weather economic hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This story was originally published July 7, 2020 at 10:37 AM.

Kelsey Landis

Belleville News-Democrat

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Kelsey Landis is an Illinois state affairs and politics reporter for the Belleville News-Democrat. She joined the newsroom in January 2020 after her first stint at the paper from 2016 to 2018. She graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2010 and earned a master’s from DePaul University in 2014. Landis previously worked at The Alton Telegraph. At the BND, she focuses on informing you about what your lawmakers are doing in Springfield and Washington, D.C., and she works to hold them accountable. Landis has won Illinois Press Association awards for her work, including the Freedom of Information Award.