[Disaster Declaration #21757 and #21758; ILLINOIS Disaster Number IL-20031]
AGENCY:
U.S. Small Business Administration.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
This is notice of an Administrative declaration of a disaster for the state of Illinois dated August 5, 2026.
Incident:
Severe Storms.
DATES:
Issued on August 5, 2026.
Incident Period:
July 2, 2026 through July 4, 2026.
Physical Loan Application Deadline Date:
October 5, 2026.
Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan Application Deadline Date:
May 5, 2027.
ADDRESSES:
Visit the MySBA Loan Portal at lending.sba.gov
to apply for a disaster assistance loan.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tamara Edge, Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience, U.S. Small Business Administration, 409 3rd Street SW, Suite 6050, Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205-9888.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice is hereby given as a result of the Administrator's disaster declaration, applications for disaster loans may be submitted online using the MySBA Loan Portal
lending.sba.gov
or in person at other locally announced locations. For further assistance please contact the SBA disaster assistance customer service center by email at
disastercustomerservice@sba.gov
or by phone at 1-800-659-2955. If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access telecommunications relay services.
The following areas have been determined to be adversely affected by the disaster:
Primary Counties:
Kane.
( printed page 51822)
Contiguous Counties:
Illinois: Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kendall, McHenry.
The Interest Rates are:
Percent
For Physical Damage:
Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere
5.750
Homeowners without Credit Available Elsewhere
2.875
Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere
8.000
Businesses without Credit Available Elsewhere
4.000
Private Non-Profit Organizations with Credit Available Elsewhere
3.625
Private Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere
3.625
For Economic Injury:
Business and Small Agricultural Cooperatives without Credit Available Elsewhere
4.000
Private Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere
3.625
The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 21757B and for economic injury is 217580.
The state which received an SBA Administrative declaration is Illinois.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 59008)
Use this for formal legal and research references to the published document.
91 FR 51821
Web Citation
Suggested Web Citation
Use this when citing the archival web version of the document.
“Administrative Declaration of a Disaster for the State of Illinois,” thefederalregister.org (August 11, 2026), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2026-16293/administrative-declaration-of-a-disaster-for-the-state-of-illinois.
lending.sba.gov
13 CFR 123.3(b)