Illinois
Federal agencies obligated $119.1 billion for work performed in Illinois in fiscal year 2026, ranking 12 of all states and territories reported.
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The record
- Obligations performed here, FY2026
- $119,108,385,438
- Across every agency and award type.
- Rank
- 12 of 56
- Among states and territories with reported obligations.
- Per resident
- $9,371.12
- Divided by 12,710,158 residents, 2024 estimate.
The per-resident figure is $119,108,385,438 divided by 12,710,158, the 2024 resident population estimate from U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA). It is dollars of federally obligated work recorded in Illinois per resident. It is not federal money received by residents, and it is not a payment anyone receives.
Largest agencies
| Rank | Agency | Obligations | Share of state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Security Administration | $50,684,601,878 | 42.6% |
| 2 | Department of Health and Human Services | $37,501,341,618 | 31.5% |
| 3 | Department of Veterans Affairs | $6,370,350,920 | 5.3% |
| 4 | Department of Defense | $5,719,512,851 | 4.8% |
| 5 | Department of Agriculture | $5,461,278,106 | 4.6% |
| 6 | Department of Housing and Urban Development | $3,556,972,580 | 3.0% |
| 7 | Department of Education | $2,988,816,941 | 2.5% |
| 8 | Department of Transportation | $2,496,577,858 | 2.1% |
| 9 | Department of Energy | $2,137,965,401 | 1.8% |
| 10 | Railroad Retirement Board | $679,884,678 | 0.6% |
| 11 | General Services Administration | $481,904,880 | 0.4% |
| 12 | Department of Labor | $226,372,786 | 0.2% |
| 13 | National Science Foundation | $207,551,364 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Federal Communications Commission | $168,771,099 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Department of Homeland Security | $120,174,754 | 0.1% |
The 15 largest of 50 agencies with obligations here. Illinois accounts for 2.5% of the $4,725,719,515,020 that carries a place-of-performance state.
What this page cannot show
- Place of performance is the location the recipient reported. A contract recorded here may be performed, subcontracted, or spent elsewhere.
- These are obligations recorded in the period, not outlays and not money received by residents or by the state government.
- A per-resident figure divides work performed in a state by the people who live there. The two are not the same population, and a state with a large federal installation or contractor will rank high without its residents receiving that money.
Related
Nearby in the ranking
Largest agencies here
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved 2026-09-18apps/web/queries/spending/states_by_federal_awards.sql, apps/web/queries/spending/state_agencies.sql
- U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (NST-EST2024-ALLDATA) (population denominator) — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work, public domaintransforms/seeds/census_state_population.csv
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