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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 Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) with Acoustic Target Recognition & Cueing Control
(Defense)
Amount $800,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Melissa Bean (D-IL)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Locations Barrington, Illinois Recipients Recon Optical Inc.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Conservation Science Department at Lincoln Park Zoo
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $37,000 Sponsors Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Locations Chicago, Illinois Recipients Lincoln Park Zoological Society (Chicago, Ill.)
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Cook County, IL
(Energy and Water)
Amount $234,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jesse Jackson (D-IL)
Former Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
Locations Illinois Recipients Cook County, Ill.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Interoperable Safety and Emergency Communications Radios
(Commerce, Justice and Science)
Amount $2,256,000 Sponsors Former Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Former Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
Former Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL)
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Locations Cook, Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Copper Air Quality Program
(Defense)
Amount $1,600,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL)
Former Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-IA)
Former Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY)
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Locations East Alton, Illinois; Franklin, Kentucky Recipients Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center; Olin Corp.; Virtus Precision Tube LLC
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description County of Peoria, Peoria, IL, for facilities and equipment
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $239,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL) Locations Peoria, Illinois Recipients Peoria County, Ill.
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge - Devil's Kitchen Dam, phase 2 (cc)
(Interior)
Amount $1,969,000 Sponsors President (solo) * Locations Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Cristo Rey High School, to improve technologies for the school's library and technology center
(Labor-HHS-Education)
Amount $383,000 Sponsors Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Locations Chicago, Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description Crop Production and Food Processing
(Agriculture, Rural Development and FDA)
Amount $837,000 Sponsors Former Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL) Locations Peoria, Illinois Recipients
Earmark details View earmark details Year 2008 Description CTA Brown Line Capacity Expansion
(Transportation-Housing and Urban Development)
Amount $39,200,000 Sponsors President *
Former Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Locations Ravenwood, Illinois Recipients

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