Earmarks requested by Barack H. Obama
Data from Fiscal Year 2008 appropriations bills supplied by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
| Amount | Earmark Description | Intended Recipient | |
| $ | for | Sparks College, Shelbyville, IL for a closed captioner training program | |
| $ | for | Poder Learning Center, Chicago, IL for immigrant neighborhood education and job development services | |
| $138,000,000 | for | Peer Reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program | |
| $80,000,000 | for | Peer Reviewed Prostate Cancer Research Program | |
| $50,000,000 | for | Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program | |
| $32,485,000 | for | Civic Education Program (Center for Civic Education and National Council on Economic Education) It is also for a comprehensive program between the Center for Civic Education, Indiana University and NCSL to improve public education of the congress and state legislatures. | |
| $24,000,000 | for | National Writing Project, a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes K–16 teacher training programs in the effective teaching of writing. | |
| $11,500,000 | for | Rock Island Arsenal - Arsenal Support Program | Rock Island Arsenal |
| $10,000,000 | for | Gulf War Illness Peer Reviewed Research | |
| $10,000,000 | for | Peer Reviewed Ovarian Cancer Research Program | |
| $8,856,000 | for | Upper Miss River - Illinois WW System, IL, IA, MN, MO | |
| $7,872,000 | for | Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Second Barrier | |
| $7,580,000 | for | National Rural Water Association | |
| $7,227,500 | for | METRA, Union Pacific Northwest Line, Northeastern IL | |
| $7,227,500 | for | METRA, STAR Line, Northeastern IL | |
| $7,227,500 | for | Metra Connects, Southeast Services | |
| $7,227,500 | for | METRA, Union Pacific West Line, IL | |
| $6,000,000 | for | Rock Island Arsenal; Building 299 Roof Replacement Phase II | |
| $3,572,000 | for | Regional Climate Centers, cooperative agreement with the National Climatic Data Center, Univ. of NE; Illinois State Water-Survey; Cornell University; S.C. Dept. of Natural Resources; Louisiana State University; Desert Research Institute | |
| $3,350,000 | for | Combined Fire/Police Facility | |
| $3,200,000 | for | Light Emitting Diode Wound Healing of Oral and Cutaneous Lesions | |
| $3,000,000 | for | National Consortium for MASINT Research | |
| $3,000,000 | for | National Service Member Outreach Program (as provided in Senate Sec 8130) | |
| $2,940,000 | for | Illinois Trails | |
| $2,400,000 | for | Fuel Cells for Mobile Robotic Systems Project | Chicago State University |
| $2,000,000 | for | Nanomedical Technologies Research | University if Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| $1,840,000 | for | Flexible Solar Cell for Man Portable Power Generator | |
| $1,500,000 | for | Multi-scale modeling impact resistant materials for body armor | |
| $1,313,200 | for | Grand Avenue Underpass | |
| $1,176,000 | for | River Tech Boulevard Road Construction | |
| $980,000 | for | La Raza HOPE Fund for capitalization of a revolving loan fund to be used for nationwide communitv development activities | |
| $863,000 | for | Illinois-Missouri Alliance for Biotechnology | |
| $793,000 | for | Soybean Research, IL | |
| $750,000 | for | Education initiative, Benedictine University | |
| $735,000 | for | Lewis University Airport, extension of runway and taxiway | |
| $656,600 | for | Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center, for renovation and construction of the Rock Island MLK, Jr. Center | |
| $585,000 | for | Illinois Primary Health Care Association , for health information systems for clinic sites across the state | |
| $536,000 | for | Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago for their School and Center for Autism Research | |
| $526,900 | for | Women's Sports Foundation, Chicago, IL, for the GoGirlGol Chicago Initiative, a mentoring, education and development program | |
| $511,000 | for | Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL for facilities and equipment | |
| $490,000 | for | Metrolink Transit Facility | |
| $446,500 | for | McHenry County Sheriffs Department, McHenry County, IL, for radio equipment acquisition | |
| $430,000 | for | Great Lakes Remedial Action Plans | |
| $401,850 | for | Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL, for a juvenile delinquency prevention program | |
| $392,000 | for | Mobile data terminals for Pace | |
| $383,000 | for | National Corn to Ethanol Research Pilot Plant, HQ | |
| $357,200 | for | City of Lake County, IL, for communications equipment purchases | |
| $350,000 | for | McLean County, for a drug court | |
| $345,000 | for | The Northeastern Illinois Sewer Improvement Consortium for Sewer Improvements | |
| $287,000 | for | Riverside Healthcare for a computerized physician order entry system | |
| $287,000 | for | Lewis and Clark Community College to purchase and equip a mobile health clinic to serve rural areas | |
| $250,000 | for | Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities for training to address workforce shortage in nursing and allied health | |
| $246,000 | for | Energy and Sustainability Institute, Illinois Institute of Technology (IL) | |
| $245,000 | for | Pace Bus Park-N-Ride Facility | |
| $245,000 | for | PACE Suburban Bus Roosevelt Rd | |
| $245,000 | for | PACE South Suburban Signal Transit Signal Priority | |
| $245,000 | for | Jack Dame Road Extension | |
| $245,000 | for | Multimodal Center | |
| $196,980 | for | Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation, for the acquisition and operation of Asthma Vans | |
| $196,000 | for | Mobile Data Terminal/Chicago Paratransit Vehicles | |
| $195,000 | for | St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL for facilities and equipment | |
| $98,490 | for | Southwest Rochelle Truck Loop | |
| $94,000 | for | Lake County, IL Integrated Criminal Justice Information System | |
| $94,000 | for | McHenry County, IL Law Enforcement Communication System | |
| $0 | for | Village of Carpentersville, IL, for the Community Response Team | |
| $0 | for | Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), Washington, DC, For national anti-sexual assault programs. | |
