USAspending.gov · federal contract spending · CY2024 · IL
Illinois federal contract spending
Top-third USAspending place-of-performance jurisdiction by calendar-2024 contract dollars — IL extract with listed primes below.
- Corpus rank
- #16 of 56
- Contract awards (CY2024)
- $13.3B
- State code
- IL
- Top primes
- 20
Illinois vs all states by place-of-performance award dollars
Where this state's calendar-2024 USAspending place-of-performance total sits among every jurisdiction with awards (coverage density, not contractor quality)
$13,252,553,805 Top 29% more award dollars than 71% of 56 states
States, banded by CY place-of-performance award dollars
Each bar is a $1-wide band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source USAspending.gov · 2026-08-14
Illinois place-of-performance awards
According to the USAspending.gov place-of-performance extract, Illinois ranks #16 of 54 by calendar-2024 dollars ($13.3B) and #35 by 2023-to-2024 change (-3.9%). Virginia is #1 of 54 by calendar-2024 place-of-performance dollars ($111.4B) at 2023-to-2024 #27 (+1.6%) ≠ Wisconsin #1 2023-to-2024 change (+60.8%) at dollars #24 ($8.7B).
PlainFedContract attributes awards to Illinois by USAspending.gov primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Calendar-2024 dollars stay separate from lifetime recipient totals and complete-FY national pools; see /methodology/#populations/. Not a forecast of future awards.
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Illinois’s annual contract dollars by place of performance fell from $13.8B in 2023 to $13.3B in 2024. 3.9% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2023 at $13.8B.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same place-of-performance basis as the CY2024 headline above.
How Illinois leads the CY2024 place-of-performance board
$13.3B · #16 of 56 by CY2024 place-of-performance awards (above the median) — a top-third jurisdiction by calendar-2024 place-of-performance contract dollars (same board as the states listing). See methodology.
W S Darley & Co is the largest listed prime with work attributed here at $1.2B, or 9.1% of this state’s calendar-2024 total. Top recipients in this extract tie to 5 awarding agencies — a moderate awarding-agency span for the listed primes. Totals use primary place of performance (where the work ran), not contractor headquarters. Methodology.
Top Contractors in Illinois
Listed-prime dollar bands
Exclusive cut of the 20 named primes listed below ($9.2B combined). This is a share of the listed table only, not of Illinois’s full place-of-performance total, and not a forecast.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mega-scale state peers nationwide
Cross-state peers on the USAspending place-of-performance extract: nearest mega-scale obligation totals and broadest awarding-agency span among listed primes. Not regional neighbors.
Closest place-of-performance obligations
- New Mexico $12.8B
- New York $14.1B
- Kentucky $11.8B
- Washington $15.6B
- Colorado $15.6B
- Georgia $10.8B
Similar awarding-agency span
Illinois lists top recipients tied to 5 awarding agencies in the available linked extract.
- Arizona 5 agencies
- Nevada 5 agencies
- Pennsylvania 5 agencies
- Puerto Rico 5 agencies
- Arkansas 6 agencies
- Kansas 4 agencies
Disclaimer: USAspending.gov public records for a top-tier place-of-performance jurisdiction. Dollar totals aggregate CY2024 awards where work ran in Illinois; verify modifications with Treasury before relying on a single figure.
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