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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$32,793,034

Department of Transportation·Federal Highway Administration

to ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

WORK BEGAN·LATEST ACTION2026-05-19·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_693JJ22330000Y110IL1987002_069
Award description

PROJECT TITLE: NEW I-74 MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGES :::: PROJECT DESCRIPTION: CONSTRUCTION OF NEW I-74 CORRIDOR BRIDGES OVER THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT THE QUAD CITIES

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Federal highway funding for construction of new I-74 bridges over the Mississippi River at the Quad Cities.

Sub-sectors
highway-infrastructurebridge-constructionfhwa-formula-grant
Why this matters

I-74 is a major St. Louis–Chicago economic corridor; bridge modernization supports critical infrastructure and Midwest transportation resilience.

Supply-chain signal

Drives demand for structural steel, concrete, heavy equipment, and regional construction labor and subcontractors.

U.S.–China competition angle

Related to domestic infrastructure capability; sourcing of materials and labor reflects U.S. manufacturing and supply-chain resilience priorities.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-16. Cost: $0.009838.

Period of performance
Start
End
2024-03-02
Status
expired850 days ago
Sources

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