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Drugs And Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers federal obligations in Illinois

USAspending.gov records $547,897,949.51 in Drugs And Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers (NAICS 424210) obligations with Illinois place of performance, across 44,298 awards. That pair is an industry code crossed with a geography filter, not a national drug wholesalers budget. Average obligation per award is about $12,368 — a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical wholesale invoice.

Key figures

  • NAICS 424210 in Illinois: $547,897,949.51 across 44,298 awards.
  • Average obligation per award is about $12,368.
  • The total is obligations, not outlays, and not nationwide drug wholesalers.
  • IL is place of performance, not a plant-only split.

What NAICS 424210 and Illinois share on one row

NAICS 424210 and place-of-performance state IL meet here. $547,897,949.51 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not every federal award in Illinois, not the nationwide Drugs And Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers total, and not cash already paid. Midwest wholesale-drug folklore and statewide drugs and druggists' sundries merchant wholesale stories may send a reader here. Those stories are not a plant list and not a wholesale actions census. NAICS 424210 is drugs and druggists' sundries merchant wholesale, not pharmacy retail (NAICS 456110) and not pharmaceutical manufacturing (325412).

44,298 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — tens of thousands of rows beside $547,897,949.51. A thick book is a record count, not a unique-vendor census. The join does not rank Illinois against other states and does not name vendors, facilities, or wholesale actions inside the extract. Unique recipients are unpublished on this page.

Open Illinois federal spending for the statewide table, NAICS 424210 for the industry hub without a Illinois filter, Illinois industries for other Illinois industry cells, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parent pages into $547,897,949.51.

A thick wholesale-drug book under an Illinois tag

Dividing $547,897,949.51 by 44,298 yields about $12,368 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical wholesale invoice. A second 424210 slice on another state uses the same NAICS code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Illinois's 424210 total as a synonym for every federal drug wholesalers purchase. Midwest wholesale-drug folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field.

Recipient rows live on the industry and state hubs, not in this narrative's extra columns. 44,298 is an award-record count, including modifications, not a count of wholesale actions and not a unique-firm census. Keep 424210 and IL as the join key even when a later USAspending ingest restates $547,897,949.51.

NAICS 424210 without a Illinois overlay is a different total

The NAICS 424210 page aggregates NAICS 424210 without requiring IL geography. The Illinois federal spending page aggregates all agencies and industries with Illinois place of performance. Illinois industries lists other industry cells in the same state. Only this tie applies both the 424210 filter and the IL filter, which is why it cites 44,298 awards and $547,897,949.51.

Place of performance in Illinois is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list IL while work occurs in Indiana or Wisconsin. 424210 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, Rockford, or Springfield. Place of performance is a tag, not proof that every wholesale action stayed inside Illinois.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $547,897,949.51 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 44,298 is a record count, not a payment count.

Readers who need transaction-level detail should use Illinois federal spending, NAICS 424210, and Illinois industries. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug. Keep the obligation label on $547,897,949.51 in every reuse.

What this Illinois–424210 pair does not prove

A drugs and druggists' sundries merchant wholesale total in Illinois does not mean the industry caused Illinois's industrial mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between plant geography and drug wholesalers awards is expected; it is not a finding about readiness, waste, or local employment. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset.

Keep $547,897,949.51 labeled as NAICS 424210 obligations with Illinois place of performance. An industry name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending. Illinois federal spending still includes other NAICS codes that must not be folded into this cell.

How to cite the Illinois–424210 pair

A clean footnote names NAICS 424210 (Drugs And Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers), Illinois place of performance, $547,897,949.51 in obligations, and 44,298 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $547,897,949.51 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $12,368 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical wholesale invoice. Illinois federal spending, NAICS 424210, Illinois industries, and All spending ties keep the same unit.

A later ingest can restate $547,897,949.51 without changing the join of 424210 and IL. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Chicago-versus-Rockford folklore is not a metro split in this packet. Do not treat 44,298 as a unique-firm census. Unique recipients are not published here. Keep NAICS 424210 and IL as the join key. Those stories are not a plant list and not a wholesale actions census. Correlation is not causation.

Readers who reuse IL drug wholesalers | USAspending $547.9M should keep both sides of the join in the same sentence, cite USAspending.gov as the source, and treat award rows as records rather than unique vendors. The live hubs linked from this page can refresh the snapshot; this narrative does not invent a fiscal year, a recipient list, or an outlay total that the packet omitted. Place of performance remains a geography tag, not proof that work stayed inside Illinois. NAICS 424210 without the IL filter is a different total on NAICS 424210. Statewide spending without the 424210 filter is a different total on Illinois federal spending. Illinois industries keeps sibling Illinois codes unmerged. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Quote 44,298 awards and $547,897,949.51 together whenever the drug wholesalers cell in Illinois is cited.

Questions

How much has NAICS 424210 obligated in Illinois?
USAspending.gov records $547,897,949.51 in obligations for NAICS 424210 with Illinois place of performance, covering 44,298 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not the nationwide Drugs And Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Is this every drug wholesalers dollar in Illinois?
No. NAICS 424210 is drugs and druggists' sundries merchant wholesale, not pharmacy retail (NAICS 456110) and not pharmaceutical manufacturing (325412). $547,897,949.51 covers 44,298 awards with Illinois place of performance under that code. Sibling codes have their own industry pages. Quote 424210 and Illinois together.
Does this include Indiana or Wisconsin drug wholesalers awards?
No. $547,897,949.51 and 44,298 describe Illinois place of performance only. Awards coded to Indiana or Wisconsin do not enter this sum even if a vendor's mailroom sits in Chicago. Keep the Illinois geography tag on the citation. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
Where are the live Illinois and NAICS 424210 tables?
Illinois federal spending shows statewide spending. NAICS 424210 shows NAICS 424210 without a state filter. Illinois industries lists other Illinois industry cells. All spending ties lists other pairs. This page is the join of those two filters, not a restatement of either hub.

USAspending.gov NAICS industry aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.