In my piece on the ten-year U.S. Census as a jobs creator, I mentioned that the count determines billions of dollars in federal funding. The Chicago Tribune’s Oscar Avila has a more precise report of how much money is at stake — in 2008, Illinois received $19.1 billion in federal funds tied to Census figures. Chicago alone got $12.6 billion. The money is especially important for covering highway costs and Medicaid reimbursements.

Avila gets his information from a new Brookings Institution study — the study finds that the Census count will determine $500 billion in federal funding.

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