City of Chicago
State/Lake Loop Elevated Station (one named project)
Exact amount: $329,801,213.00
Calendar year 2026
Our estimateUSASpending prime award IL-2016-002 (State/Lake Loop Elevated Station): obligation $414.6M minus outlays $84.8M = $329.8M unspent (cap). Mid-Year Grants shows the same project in 4 funding sources (STP, CMAQ, CRP). USASpending sub-awards to the City for ALN 20.507 and 20.205: 0 rows (HTTP 200). The cap is the federal award IL-2016-002 (obligated minus outlays). The City ledger shows part of it by funding source, and the rest is shown as not itemised.
Almost all of this money is for one big train station rebuild, and the public lists show it by where the money came from, not by what each dollar buys.
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| Box | Amount | % of this budget |
|---|---|---|
| Rest of the federal award not shown by funding source in the City ledger · Leftover | $127,618,673.96 | 38.7% |
| Surface Transportation Program money, not spent yet (ledger extract 2025-06-01) · Government estimate | $102,140,573.00 | 31.0% |
| Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality money, not spent yet (ledger extract 2026-05-31) · Government estimate | $59,516,917.67 | 18.0% |
| Surface Transportation Program money, not spent yet (ledger extract 2026-05-31) · Government estimate | $18,190,500.00 | 5.5% |
| Carbon Reduction Program money, not spent yet (ledger extract 2026-05-31) · Government estimate | $15,000,000.00 | 4.5% |
| Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality money (direct FTA grant), not spent yet (ledger extract 2026-05-31) · Government estimate | $7,334,548.37 | 2.2% |
Sources
- data/leaves_grants.json
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