City of Chicago
For the Payment of Tort and Non-Tort Judgments, Outside Counsel Expenses and Expert Costs, as Approved by the Corporation Counsel
$12.0 million
Exact amount: $12,000,000.00
Calendar year 2026
Payments are authorized payment requests from the Law Department to the Comptroller from 2026-01-02 to 2026-07-31, unaudited, and may change after reconciliation. The report names no fund or account, so a payment is placed here by its department only. All Fire Department payments in the report are placed here.
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| Box | Amount | % of this budget |
|---|---|---|
| Budgeted but not spent yet · Leftover | $8,737,009.50 | 72.8% |
| Discrimination and harassment cases (mostly lawyers' fees) · Paid so far | $1,270,495.93 | 10.6% |
| Paramedic malpractice lawsuits · Paid so far | $1,100,000.00 | 9.2% |
| Crashes involving fire vehicles · Paid so far | $747,303.96 | 6.2% |
| Union awards, discipline cases and small items · Paid so far | $145,190.61 | 1.2% |
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