City of Chicago
For the Payment of Tort and Non-Tort Judgments, Outside Counsel Expenses and Expert Costs, as Approved by the Corporation Counsel
Exact amount: $82,558,000.00
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 Police Department payments in the report are placed here, including $90,000,000 for the Watts global settlement. The line also pays outside lawyers and experts, which are not in this report.
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Boxes that add money total $234,299,708.64. Boxes that take money away total -$151,741,708.64. Together they make $82,558,000.00.
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- Paid beyond the budget line (the City plans to borrow for settlements): -$151,741,708.64
All items
| Box | Amount | % of this budget |
|---|---|---|
| Paid beyond the budget line (the City plans to borrow for settlements) · Adjustment | -$151,741,708.64 | -183.8% |
| Wrongful conviction settlements, other than Watts (10 payments) · Paid so far | $91,844,242.37 | 111.2% |
| Watts global settlement (176 lawsuits, approved by the Council 2025-09-15) · Paid so far | $90,000,000.00 | 109.0% |
| Police vehicle chase crashes · Paid so far | $45,398,000.00 | 55.0% |
| Lawsuits over police conduct and jobs (force, arrests, searches, discrimination, whistleblower) · Paid so far | $4,479,733.08 | 5.4% |
| Crashes and property damage involving police · Paid so far | $2,286,097.54 | 2.8% |
| Union awards, public records lawsuits and small items · Paid so far | $291,635.65 | 0.4% |
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