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2025 Illinois Film Office
Mission Statement To promote Illinois as a center for film, television, and commercial production to create and retain jobs, as well as bring revenue into the state, and administer the Illinois Film Tax Credit and Live Theater Tax Credit programs.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Promote and support the growth and development of film and television production and related industries to and within Illinois.
    1. Increase the level of film and television production expenditures in Illinois.
    2. Support the growth and development of production-related commerce.
    3. Increase the number of film and television production job hires that represent the diversity of Illinois.
  2. Support and develop the commercial production industry in Illinois.
    1. Increase the amount of production expenditures for commercial advertising in Illinois.
    2. Increase the number of production job hires that represent the diversity of Illinois.
Source of Funds Illinois Production Workforce Development, Tourism Promotion Fund Statutory Authority 20 ILCS 665/4, 35 ILCS 16/48
Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
Input Indicators
Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 8,272.7 $ 5,516.6 $ 7,929.0 $ 3,980.5 $ 2,127.3
Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 8,272.7 $ 5,516.6 $ 7,929.0 $ 3,980.5 $ 2,127.3
Average monthly full-time equivalents 13.0 12.0 11.0 10.0 9.5
Outcome Indicators
Estimated total production expenditures in Illinois (in millions) $ 652.0 $ 680.7 $ 652.0 $ 560.4 $ 562.1
Estimated Illinois film wages (in millions) $ 384.0 $ 334.0 $ 384.0 $ 292.7 $ 311.0
Estimated live theater expenditures (in millions) (a) $ 30.4 $ 54.6 $ 30.4 $ 25.0 $ 22.9
Estimated live theater Illinois wages (in millions) (a) $ 20.1 $ 26.9 $ 6.7 $ 10.3 $ 9.3
Number of trainees entering Film Workforce Development Program 250.0 206.0 185.0 102.0 165.0
Number of trainees completing the Film Workforce Development Program 225.0 201.0 175.0 89.0 150.0
Number of trainees obtaining program relative employment after Film Workforce Development Program completion 175.0 120.0 150.0 65.0 0.0
Soundstage Capital Projects: Average revenue increase after project completion 25.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Footnotes
These increases happened as a result of a 50% increase of the tax credits available in the Live Theater Production Tax Credit program.

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