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Federal funding for universities in Illinois 34 universities and colleges in Illinois received $2.4 billion in federal awards in FY2025. Northwestern University received the most ($581.6 million).
The largest recipients in Illinois
Federal awards, FY2025.
Source: USAspending.gov, awards to each institution's registered UEIs.
All 34 institutions 34 institutions
# Institution Location FY2025 total Grants 1 Northwestern University Evanston, IL $581.6M $551.1M 2 University of Illinois (Urbana) Urbana, IL $428.9M $348.2M 3 University of Chicago Chicago, IL $426.3M $398.2M 4 University of Illinois (Chicago) Chicago, IL $337.9M $251.7M 5 Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL $53.2M $13.4M 6 Illinois State University Normal, IL $52.0M $3.4M 7 Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville) Edwardsville, IL $43.4M $20.4M 8 Depaul University Chicago, IL $38.4M $845,938 9 Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) Carbondale, IL $35.2M $10.8M 10 Loyola University of Chicago (Chicago) Chicago, IL $34.5M $6.2M 11 Community College District 502 Glen Ellyn, IL $33.8M $64,217 12 Loyola University of Chicago (Maywood) Maywood, IL $28.4M $27.9M 13 Community College District No. 508 Chicago, IL $28.0M $272,364 14 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL $26.9M $17.3M 15 Columbia College Chicago Chicago, IL $24.4M $348,514 16 National Louis University Wheeling, IL $24.0M $4.6M 17 Northeastern Illinois University Chicago, IL $22.4M $5.2M 18 William Rainey Harper College Palatine, IL $19.3M $942,668 19 Illinois Central College East Peoria, IL $17.8M $6.4M 20 Joliet Junior College Joliet, IL $17.6M $901,694 21 Roosevelt University Chicago, IL $17.1M $5.3M 22 Lewis University Romeoville, IL $15.9M $986,762 23 Saint Xavier University Chicago, IL $15.0M $669,092 24 Aurora University Aurora, IL $14.9M $560,134 25 Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL $14.6M $304,615 26 Dominican University River Forest, IL $14.6M $2.8M 27 State University University Park, IL $12.1M $1.9M 28 Western Illinois University Macomb, IL $11.7M $607,837 29 Bradley University Peoria, IL $10.7M $2.3M 30 Parkland College District 505 Champaign, IL $10.3M $348,515 31 Illinois Community College District No 515 Chicago Heights, IL $8.6M $597,974 32 Morton Junior College District No 527 Cicero, IL $8.4M $0 33 Oakton Community College Des Plaines, IL $8.0M $362,503 34 Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science North Chicago, IL $7.3M $6.5M
All federal money to Illinois
Sources and notes USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), API endpoints spending_over_time and spending_by_category, filtered by recipient, fiscal years 2018–2026. Amounts are obligations in nominal dollars. Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Public domain.How the figures are built, and what they leave out: sources and methods .