Federal Communications Commission federal obligations in Illinois

A high-count FCC file on Illinois

Federal Communications Commission as awarding agency, Illinois as place-of-performance: 11,398 records summing to $1,329,758,076.17. A Federal Communications Commission award coded outside IL is out. An award in Illinois from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Illinois (IL) excludes Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Kentucky. A Indiana-coded award is IN even if the tower sits on the border.

Eleven thousand three hundred ninety-eight awards is a thick FCC action file. Volume can rise on recurring instruments without each row being a new subscriber. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 11,398 as 11,398 unique unique broadband subscribers, tower counts, or named programs. The overlay Federal Communications Commission in Illinois is the both-keys table. Illinois federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Federal Communications Commission is the agency book without an IL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

E-Rate and other program labels are unpublished. This packet does not say which dominate $1,329,758,076.17. Correlation is not causation: Illinois did not cause $1,329,758,076.17 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 027 × IL only.

Award rows are not unique broadband subscribers

$1,329,758,076.17 does not measure unique broadband subscribers, tower counts, or named programs. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 027 and an IL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 11,398 awards as a census of unique broadband subscribers, tower counts, or named programs. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Illinois federal spending or Federal Communications Commission matched $1,329,758,076.17 and 11,398, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Indiana, Wisconsin, and Missouri FCC joins are other pairs, not addends.

Illinois statewide, not a Chicago-only map

Place of performance IL is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Illinois (IL) excludes Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Kentucky. A Indiana-coded award is IN even if the tower sits on the border. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

E-Rate and other program labels are unpublished. This packet does not say which dominate $1,329,758,076.17. This packet does not split $1,329,758,076.17 by city, county, or named facility. 11,398 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Many actions, still commitments

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,329,758,076.17 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Illinois confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Illinois’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 11,398-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,329,758,076.17.

Citing FCC in Illinois

Cite USAspending.gov: Federal Communications Commission (agency 027) obligated $1,329,758,076.17 on 11,398 awards coded to Illinois. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique broadband subscribers, tower counts, or named programs.

Prefer Federal Communications Commission in Illinois if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Illinois federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to IL. Federal Communications Commission is the 027 parent without the IL filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,329,758,076.17.

A usable footnote names Federal Communications Commission, Illinois, $1,329,758,076.17, and 11,398. The compact headline $1.33 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $116,666 is $1,329,758,076.17 divided by 11,398. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Federal Communications Commission obligated in Illinois?

USAspending.gov records $1,329,758,076.17 across 11,398 awards with awarding agency 027 and an Illinois tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique broadband subscribers, tower counts, or named programs. Federal Communications Commission in Illinois is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,329,758,076.17.

Is $1,329,758,076.17 a measure of unique broadband subscribers, tower counts, or named programs?

No. The packet publishes $1,329,758,076.17 and 11,398 awards for agency 027 inside IL coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this FCC file have 11,398 awards?

That is the award-record count for 027 × IL. Combined with $1,329,758,076.17, the average is about $116,666. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 11,398 is not unique unique broadband subscribers, tower counts, or named programs. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Federal Communications Commission in Illinois is the overlay. Illinois federal spending and Federal Communications Commission are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,329,758,076.17. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.