Head Start obligations in Illinois

Head Start 93.600 crossed with Illinois geography

CFDA 93.600 is titled HEAD START. Filtered to Illinois place of performance, obligations sum to $2,584,121,322.28 on 166 awards. The national Head Start hub includes every state. Illinois's spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection. $2,584,121,322.28 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of classrooms, slots, or teachers in Chicago, Springfield, or Peoria.

Head Start often funds local agencies rather than a single statewide block, which produces a many-grantee award file. The join does not name recipients, split Cook County and downstate, or count classrooms, slots, or teachers. Packet facts stop at $2,584,121,322.28, 166 awards, IL, and 93.600. Correlation is not causation.

93.600 is not CCDBG in Illinois

the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) sits on other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars into $2,584,121,322.28 would invent a broader total than this 93.600 × IL cell contains. Facts available: Illinois, CFDA 93.600, $2,584,121,322.28, 166 awards. Recipient names, subawards, and classroom, slot, or teacher counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Head Start, not a ranking of Illinois outcomes. Dividing $2,584,121,322.28 by 166 yields about $15.57 million per award—a local-agency Head Start grant, not a typical teacher salary or per-child cost. Unique recipients are unpublished. 166 is not a count of classrooms, slots, or teachers.

Illinois geography on the Head Start tag

IL is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Chicago, Springfield, or Peoria can share the tag. Awards coded to Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, or Kentucky stay outside $2,584,121,322.28 even when a metro, watershed, or service area approaches the border. A Chicago grantee and a downstate grantee share one IL code. The code does not convert $2.58 billion into a center map.

Illinois federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.600 is one row on Illinois programs. $2.58 billion is not the state's complete federal footprint. Open Head Start in Illinois for the filtered table, CFDA 93.600 for 93.600 without a Illinois filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,584,121,322.28.

Reading 166 awards under $2.58 billion

$2,584,121,322.28 ÷ 166 is about $15.57 million per award. That average is a local-agency Head Start grant, not a typical teacher salary or per-child cost. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 166 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 166 finished Head Start grants.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,584,121,322.28 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 166 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,584,121,322.28 without changing the join key of 93.600 and IL.

What the Head Start–Illinois pair does not prove

A large 93.600 total tagged to Illinois does not measure kindergarten readiness, and it does not equal funded enrollment. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $2,584,121,322.28 on 166 awards for Head Start in Illinois.

Keep both sides of the join: Head Start and Illinois, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,584,121,322.28 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 166 as a classroom, slot, or teacher census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a program story.

Using the Head Start–Illinois overlay

The overlay target is the Illinois × CFDA 93.600 table. Open Head Start in Illinois when you want the same $2,584,121,322.28 / 166-awards cell in the site's data chrome. CFDA 93.600 drops the Illinois filter. Illinois federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Illinois programs lists other catalogs beside Head Start. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Illinois won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.600 plus IL. Obligations of $2,584,121,322.28 are not outlays. Cite Head Start together with Illinois whenever you reuse $2,584,121,322.28. 166 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

How much Head Start funding is obligated in Illinois?

USAspending.gov shows $2,584,121,322.28 in CFDA 93.600 obligations coded to Illinois across 166 awards. The join uses the program number and Illinois place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep Head Start and Illinois together when citing $2,584,121,322.28.

Is Head Start the same as CCDBG in Illinois?

No. This cell is CFDA 93.600 only. the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) are other catalogs. Mixing those numbers would invent a total larger than $2,584,121,322.28. 166 is a record count, not a classroom, slot, or teacher census.

Do 166 awards mean 166 Head Start centers?

166 is a USAspending award-record count, not a classroom, slot, or teacher census. The implied mean is about $15.57 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,584,121,322.28 are not outlays. Keep Head Start and Illinois together when citing $2,584,121,322.28. The overlay remains the live 93.600 × IL table on USAspending.gov.

Do these obligations equal slots filled?

No. $2,584,121,322.28 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no classroom, slot, or teacher count. Keep the obligation label when citing the pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.600 × IL pair.