What is the Main Street Program?

It's a four-point historic preservation based program on downtown revitalization. It provides training and technical support to participating communities as they move toward revitalizing their historic downtown business districts.

All successful Illinois Main Street communities have applied the program's four-point approach to revamp their downtown's with benefits that extend beyond the downtown into the nooks and crannies of community life.

A key focus of the Illinois Main Street Program is on preservation. As you probably have witnessed, the original downtown areas in most Illinois communities boast a wealth of structurally unique buildings, full of character and charm. And they are well worth preserving.