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Where are this year's earmarks
Fiscal Year(s)

View earmark details Earmark Spending in Illinois

* Earmarks requested by the president are not included in the member and state rankings to better reflect political power. This follows the methodology used by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Fiscal Year(s) 2008-2010 No Total Amount
Congressional earmarks No. 998 Total Amount $1,031,088,882
All earmarks No. 1086* Total Amount $2,519,434,583*
Earmark Details Year

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Description (Bill) Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Diamond MEMS Sensors for Real-Time Sensing of Weaponized Pathogens
(Defense)
Amount $1,000,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) Locations Romeoville, Illinois Recipients Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois for research related to the role of Transglutaminases in Alzheimer's and Huntington's Diseases.
(Energy and Water)
Amount $590,000 Sponsors Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Locations River Forest, Illinois Recipients Dominican University
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Driftless Area Initiative
(Energy and Water)
Amount $608,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) Locations Illinois; Minnesota; Wisconsin Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description DuPage County, for a county-wide physical fitness assessment pilot project
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $143,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL) Locations Wheaton, Illinois Recipients DuPage County, Ill.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description DuPage Technology Park to establish a minority business incubator
(Financial Services)
Amount $250,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Denny Hastert (R-IL) Locations West Chicago, Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description East Saint Louis High School, to upgrade the school's technology and sciences programs
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $527,000 Sponsors Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Locations East St. Louis, Illinois Recipients East St. Louis (Ill.) Senior High School
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description East St Louis And Vicinity
(Energy and Water)
Amount $258,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL) Locations Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description East St Louis
(Energy and Water)
Amount $2,266,000 Sponsors President (solo) * Locations Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago for their School and Center for Autism Research
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $527,000 Sponsors Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Former Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
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Locations Chicago, Illinois Recipients Easterseals Metropolitan Chicago (Ill.)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Eastern Illinois University Power Plant
(Energy and Water)
Amount $492,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Tim Johnson (R-IL) Locations Illinois Recipients Eastern Illinois University

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