How much Veterans Affairs funding is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending records $16,890,298,452.89 in obligations for awarding agency 036 (Department of Veterans Affairs) with Illinois place of performance, covering 38,554 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay total and not the national VA figure.

How does this differ from Defense spending in Illinois?

This page filters agency 036. Defense uses agency 097, a different overlay, and a different award count. $16,890,298,452.89 is the VA slice only.

What is the average VA award in Illinois?

Dividing $16,890,298,452.89 by 38,554 awards produces about $438,096 per award. That is a mean of the aggregate, not a median contract value.

Does this include VA health care and benefits together?

Anything coded to awarding agency 036 with Illinois place of performance is in the total. The packet does not split VHA, VBA, or other VA awarding offices.

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Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Illinois

USAspending.gov records $16,890,298,452.89 in Department of Veterans Affairs obligations under awarding agency 036 with place of performance in Illinois, across 38,554 awards. Illinois also has a high-count Defense join on this site; that is agency 097, not 036. This page is Veterans Affairs plus Illinois only. It does not identify a Chicago or Hines medical center, and it does not say Springfield funded these awards. Obligations are not outlays. Average obligation is about $438,096 ($16,890,298,452.89 ÷ 38,554). The VA-in-Illinois overlay is the table for $16,890,298,452.89 and 38,554 awards; the Illinois statewide hub includes Defense and every other awarding agency.

Key figures

VA agency 036 shows $16,890,298,452.89 in Illinois place-of-performance obligations on 38,554 awards.
Mean obligation is about $438,096 per award.
Defense in Illinois is a different agency join.
Illinois is a geography tag, not a roster of VA facilities.
Figures are obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

VA in Illinois, not the Defense cell

This page is the USAspending cell for awarding agency 036 and Illinois (IL) place of performance. The $16,890,298,452.89 total sums matching obligations. Defense in Illinois uses agency 097 and a much larger award count. Mixing the two without labeling filters would confuse departments. This narrative stays on VA.

Thirty-eight thousand five hundred fifty-four awards is a substantial row count for a VA–state join. The count can include health-care contracts, construction, and other award types. The packet does not classify them. Inferring a single facility from the state tag would add a label the table does not carry.

Illinois’s 38,554 VA records and $16,890,298,452.89 will be confused with Illinois Defense because both are large. Defense is 097 and a different overlay with a different award count. This file is 036 and 38,554 awards. Keep the codes in the citation. Hines or North Chicago names would be imported; they are not in the facts.

Awarding agency 036

Code 036 is the Department of Veterans Affairs in this extract. VHA, VBA, and NCA awarding offices can roll up under that parent. This packet does not split them. The overlay /states/il/agencies/036/ is the table view of the same pair.

A national VA page will show a larger dollar total. Using $16,890,298,452.89 as the entire VA obligation book would drop the Illinois filter. Using 38,554 as a headcount of Illinois veterans would drop the award-record definition.

Illinois as place of performance

Illinois is state code IL. Place of performance can follow work in-state, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Awards coded to Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, or Kentucky stay outside this $16,890,298,452.89 figure even when metro areas straddle those lines. The join does not reconstruct those metros.

Statewide Illinois federal spending is the parent geography. VA is one awarding agency inside it. Defense’s high-count Illinois cell is a different filter. This page keeps 036 and IL only.

A $438,096 mean in a 38,554-row book

Mean obligation of about $438,096 sits in a similar band to other mid-count VA cells. The comparison is table geometry. It is not a typical hospital claim and not a median. Community-care contracts, if present, would sit beside facility operations in the same undifferentiated total.

Net obligations can include de-obligations. 38,554 remains a count of award records, not 38,554 unique vendors and not 38,554 veterans served.

What the VA–Illinois pair is not

Illinois place-of-performance tagging does not mean FEC receipts funded these awards, and it does not convert obligations into outlays. The page does not rank Illinois’s veteran population. It reports one USAspending join.

Continue from Department of Veterans Affairs in Illinois for the overlay, Illinois federal spending for all agencies, Department of Veterans Affairs for agency 036 nationally, and All spending ties for other pairs.

How to read the Illinois–VA numbers

Illinois VA ($16,890,298,452.89, 38,554 awards) is easy to confuse with Illinois Defense because both are large. Confusion is a code error. VA is 036; Defense is 097. The Defense book has far more rows. This page’s 38,554 records and $16,890,298,452.89 stay with Veterans Affairs. Thirty-eight thousand five hundred fifty-four rows can mix VHA, VBA, and construction. Hines, North Chicago, or Danville names would be imported. The aggregate does not list facilities. The mean near $438,096 is a ratio, not a typical claim.

Missouri, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Kentucky bound Illinois. St. Louis and Chicago metros spill over those bounds in speech. USAspending does not spill. Non-IL tags stay out of $16,890,298,452.89.

Questions

How much Veterans Affairs funding is obligated in Illinois?: USAspending records $16,890,298,452.89 in obligations for awarding agency 036 (Department of Veterans Affairs) with Illinois place of performance, covering 38,554 awards. That is an obligation aggregate for this pair, not an outlay total and not the national VA figure.
How does this differ from Defense spending in Illinois?: This page filters agency 036. Defense uses agency 097, a different overlay, and a different award count. $16,890,298,452.89 is the VA slice only.
What is the average VA award in Illinois?: Dividing $16,890,298,452.89 by 38,554 awards produces about $438,096 per award. That is a mean of the aggregate, not a median contract value.
Does this include VA health care and benefits together?: Anything coded to awarding agency 036 with Illinois place of performance is in the total. The packet does not split VHA, VBA, or other VA awarding offices.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.