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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 Description (Bill)

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Amount Sponsors Locations Receiving Organization
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Wood River Levee, IL
(Energy and Water)
Amount $1,105,000 Sponsors President *
Former Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL)
Former Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL)
Locations Wood River Levee, Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors Inc. (WECAN), Chicago, IL for housing resource center, energy assistance, after-school programming, job referral service
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $95,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) Locations Chicago, Illinois Recipients Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Women's Treatment Center, Chicago, IL, for preservation services for incarcerated mothers and their children
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $230,000 Sponsors Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Locations Chicago, Illinois Recipients Women's Treatment Center Inc. (Chicago, Ill.)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Women's Sports Foundation, Chicago, IL, for the GoGirlGol Chicago Initiative, a mentoring, education and development program
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $526,900 Sponsors Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Former Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
Locations Chicago, Illinois Recipients Women's Sports Foundation
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Women in Need Growing Stronger in Palatine, IL for the acquisition and renovation of a homeless facility
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $190,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) Locations Palatine, Illinois Recipients WINGS Program Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2010 Description Wireless Surveillance System
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $300,000 Sponsors Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) Locations Melrose Park, Illinois Recipients Melrose Park (Ill.) Police Department
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description WINGS Program, Inc Domestic Violence Project
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $100,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL) Locations Schaumburg, Illinois Recipients WINGS Program Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Willowbrook Wildlife Center, for design and construction of an education center and wildlife rehabilitation and recovery clinic
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $147,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) Locations Glen Ellyn, Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2009 Description Williamson County 911 Regional Next Generation 911 System
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $600,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL) Locations Williamson County, Illinois Recipients Williamson County (Ill.) Emergency Telephone Systems Board
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Will County, Will County, IL, for technology interoperability improvements
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $460,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL)
Former Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
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Locations Will, Illinois Recipients Will County, Ill.

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