Department of Justice federal obligations in Illinois

What the Justice-Illinois join is

Awarding agency 015 and place-of-performance state IL meet here. $1,119,901,645.17 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Justice's nationwide budget, not Illinois's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Northern-district, grant-program, and statewide law-enforcement folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Illinois cases.

4,376 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — thousands of award actions behind a billion-dollar obligation total. Thousands of rows can mix large instruments with smaller formula grants. The join does not rank Illinois against other states and does not name districts inside the extract.

Open Department of Justice in Illinois for the filtered table, Illinois federal spending for the next hub, Department of Justice for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

4,376 Justice actions under one Illinois filter

Dividing $1,119,901,645.17 by 4,376 yields about $255,919.02 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical law-enforcement grant. A second Justice slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Illinois's 015 total as a synonym for every Justice bureau account.

Northern-district, grant-program, and statewide law-enforcement folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 015 without an Illinois overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Justice page aggregates 015 without requiring IL geography. The Illinois federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Illinois place of performance. Only Department of Justice in Illinois applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 4,376 awards and $1,119,901,645.17.

Place of performance in Illinois is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list IL while later work occurs in Indiana or Missouri. Justice awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Chicago. This packet does not split Chicago from Springfield or East St. Louis.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,119,901,645.17 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Illinois over-reads the field.

Award count 4,376 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Illinois-DOJ overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Justice total in Illinois does not mean the agency caused Illinois's crime mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between urban geography and Justice awards is expected; it is not a finding about safety or waste.

Keep $1,119,901,645.17 labeled as agency 015 obligations with Illinois place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Illinois-Justice pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 015 (Department of Justice), Illinois place of performance, $1,119,901,645.17 in obligations, and 4,376 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,119,901,645.17 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $255,919.02 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical law-enforcement grant.

Department of Justice in Illinois, Illinois federal spending, Department of Justice, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,119,901,645.17 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Chicago-versus-Springfield folklore is not a metro split in this packet. District names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Justice Department obligated in Illinois?

USAspending.gov records $1,119,901,645.17 in obligations for awarding agency 015 with Illinois place of performance, covering 4,376 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Justice's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every Illinois DOJ grant?

The extract lists 4,376 award actions totaling $1,119,901,645.17. Average obligation per award is about $255,919.02, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical law-enforcement grant. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Chicago-only Justice total?

No. $1,119,901,645.17 and 4,376 awards are statewide Illinois place of performance. This packet does not split Chicago from Springfield or East St. Louis. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Justice-Illinois table?

Department of Justice in Illinois is the overlay. Illinois federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Justice shows agency 015 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.