The Illinois Policy Institute has joined with Citizens Against Government Waste to put together the book that Springfield doesn’t want you to read, highlighting over $686 million in wasteful spending.

Highlights include:

$4 million for a Ford Technical Training Center in Chicago Heights
$1 million for the Illinois film office in Chicago
$920,000 for the Chicago Aerospace Education Initiative
$550,000 for the conservation of pheasants
$500,000 to administer the Tanning Facility Permit Act
$156,000 to Southern Illinois University to refurnish cabins at the “Touch of Nature Environmental Center” at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
$40,000 for the Springfield Figure Skating Club
$35,000 for the Prairie Aviation Museum for a display gallery in Bloomington

Download the 2008 Illinois Piglet Book here (PDF)