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City of Chicago 2026 adopted net budget
2026 calendar-year adopted appropriation. Published snapshot root amount: $16,842,553,003.00. Browse the interactive tree.
Net City appropriation excludes the cross-fund counted-twice view; gross is shown separately. These are three separate governments, not one official consolidated City budget. The City and Park District use 2026 budgets, while CPS FY2026 runs July 2025 through June 2026. Transfers across governments may overlap.
Coverage and provenance
- Geography
- Chicago, Illinois
- Period and basis
- 2026 calendar-year adopted appropriation; budget.
- Published snapshot export
- , according to the download snapshot's site manifest. This is a data-build date, not the source publication date. The interactive site's export may be newer.
- Source/export revision
cac392292e4a9a4e114ffa08a86198ec212522c8(earlier commit recorded in the published manifest; it does not contain the complete published snapshot).- Immutable publication revision
d95e4d265c982938b4b4a85cd61c8e1a37e6ac8c(contains the complete release and anchors these download links).- Units and schema
- Amounts are integer cents (
amount_cents). Stableidandparent_iddescribe hierarchy.basis,period_label,noteand source indices describe evidence. Tree lookup links IDs to complete records and citations in site chunks.
Explore top-level categories
| Category | Amount |
|---|---|
| Streets, water, trash and airports | $4,609,570,640.00 |
| Keeping people safe | $3,266,555,360.00 |
| Retirement (pensions) | $2,843,221,414.00 |
| Paying back loans | $1,846,978,405.00 |
| Health, families and libraries | $1,101,178,733.00 |
| Other citywide costs | $1,008,734,181.00 |
| Running the city government | $852,200,340.00 |
| Employee health care and benefits | $817,275,272.00 |
| Housing, neighborhoods and culture | $381,253,438.00 |
| Inspections and rules | $151,737,198.00 |
| Adjustment the budget office makes that no line explains | -$116,988,502.00 |
| City Council and elections | $80,836,524.00 |
Published snapshot City gross appropriation: $18,668,568,460.00. The cross-fund counted-twice view is separate from the net root, not an additional government budget.
Download and verify
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The catalog checksum for tree/manifest.json is d67bff0b5c05d87e68f414fbeb3723c1b64da65b08f4c0de49ad0aa800adf493. Use the catalog for checksums of other files. Schema and download guide.
Official source and terms
These citations come from the current interactive export; consult the pinned snapshot's site chunks and tree lookup for the exact published download's source indices.
This is a transformed independent dataset, not an official government publication. Original source terms are retained and not broadly relicensed. See source terms and all citations. Read explanatory guides.