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Illinois
9% LIHTC Atlas

The Illinois 9% deal, from site to Form 8609: 12 milestones in order, each opening to its tasks, actions, proof packages and documents — what to do, why it matters, what proves it, and the rule it comes from.

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The Illinois 9% Atlas: milestones in order, each with one line of executive truth and its guide
The Illinois Atlas as a reader sees it: the milestones in order; each opens to its guide.
The pathway

12 milestones, from site to Form 8609.

Each milestone opens to its tasks, each task to its actions and the proof package it must produce. One line of each milestone's executive truth, as the edition reads today.

  1. Site Control & DiligenceThis stage decides whether the project team understands and controls the land well enough to build an application on it.
  2. PredevelopmentPredevelopment is where an Illinois concept becomes one design that the application can defend.
  3. Preliminary Project Assessment & Application SubmissionThis stage turns a cleared preliminary assessment into the application Illinois will actually review.
  4. Conditional Allocation, Reservation & ModificationsThis stage turns an Illinois award into a controlled set of terms the project can actually follow.
  5. Carryover Allocation & Ten Percent TestThis stage protects the reserved credits by settling the carryover path and proving the expenditure test on one basis.
  6. Construction Financing Closing & StartThis stage converts approved design and financing into a closing that can safely release construction.
  7. Construction ReportingConstruction Reporting decides whether the field story is reliable enough to support funding and later closeout.
  8. Placed in Service / Lease-UpPlaced in Service / Lease-Up decides whether a finished development is ready to become an operating home.
  9. Cost Certification, Form 8609 & Final AllocationCost certification is not the finish line.
  10. Compliance Onset & First-Year CertificationThis stage decides whether lease-up has become a defensible first-year credit position.
  11. Compliance Operations CurrentThis stage keeps an occupied Illinois property aligned with the promises that preserve affordability and resident protections.
  12. Extended Use & DispositionThis stage keeps the recorded affordability bargain alive through operations and every proposed transaction.
Inside the edition

The guide, the Gantt and the calendar.

01

The guide

Every milestone, task, action, proof package and document of the Illinois 9% deal, written to be read, not recited — what this task validates, why it matters, where it sits, what “done” looks like, the watchouts, and the requirement it comes from.

02

The Gantt

The deal in time: how long the work takes, and which waits sit with the agency, the lender or the municipality, not with you. A gate closes every milestone, and the Gantt shows what the gate needs before it opens.

03

The calendar

Illinois's clocks — what starts each one, how long it runs, the condition it depends on and where the rule is written. The ones that decide a round, a reservation, a carryover, a placed-in-service date.

Who it is for

Developers, consultants and counsel who are responsible for knowing what a Illinois 9% deal requires, and for being right about it. If a new project manager could run your next application from it without asking you twice, it did its job.

An edition is one state and one program. It is read on the web, signed in; it is not a PDF. $500 a year per edition, renews until cancelled; your subscription carries every update.

When it is on sale

One email when the Illinois edition goes on sale. California 9% is on sale now.

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