Extracted from Chicago's own budget document — local fund appropriations (grant funds shown separately in the book). Every figure below adds up to the total the city printed in that document; nothing is estimated. A person still checks these numbers against the city's published pages before OpenGovs calls them verified data.
Off the map: Finance General ($8.19B) — spending the document does not tie to a building.
- Finance General concentration
A single department holds 55.3% of the FY2026 budget. Concentration is not itself waste, but it deserves outcome-per-dollar scrutiny.
| # | Department | Amount | Share | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Finance General | $8.19B | 55.3% | — |
| 02 | Chicago Police Department | $2.02B | 13.7% | — |
| 03 | Chicago Department of Aviation | $919.56M | 6.2% | — |
| 04 | Chicago Fire Department | $862.44M | 5.8% | — |
| 05 | Department of Fleet and Facility Management | $495.52M | 3.3% | — |
| 06 | Department of Water Management | $433.05M | 2.9% | — |
| 07 | Department of Streets and Sanitation | $346.89M | 2.3% | — |
| 08 | Chicago Department of Transportation | $240.12M | 1.6% | — |
| 09 | Department of Family and Support Services | $213.88M | 1.4% | — |
| 10 | Office of Public Safety Administration | $115.08M | 0.8% | — |
| 11 | Department of Planning and Development | $114.03M | 0.8% | — |
| 12 | Department of Finance | $113.18M | 0.8% | — |
| 13 | Chicago Department of Public Health | $104.99M | 0.7% | — |
| 14 | Chicago Public Library | $95.54M | 0.6% | — |
| 15 | Office of Emergency Management and Communications | $91.49M | 0.6% | — |
| 16 | Department of Technology and Innovation | $64.26M | 0.4% | — |
| 17 | Department of Law | $47.83M | 0.3% | — |
| 18 | Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events | $43.67M | 0.3% | — |
| 19 | Department of Buildings | $39.37M | 0.3% | — |
| 20 | City Council | $37.76M | 0.3% | — |
| 21 | Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection | $33.14M | 0.2% | — |
| 22 | Board of Election Commissioners | $27.87M | 0.2% | — |
| 23 | Civilian Office of Police Accountability | $15.78M | 0.1% | — |
| 24 | Office of the Mayor | $15.56M | 0.1% | — |
| 25 | Office of City Clerk | $15.21M | 0.1% | — |
| 26 | Office of Inspector General | $14.3M | 0.1% | — |
| 27 | Department of Procurement Services | $13.92M | 0.1% | — |
| 28 | Department of Housing | $13.79M | 0.1% | — |
| 29 | Department of Human Resources | $12.04M | 0.1% | — |
| 30 | Department of Administrative Hearings | $8.39M | 0.1% | — |
| 31 | Chicago Animal Care and Control | $8.18M | 0.1% | — |
| 32 | City Treasurer's Office | $6.5M | 0% | — |
| 33 | Department of Environment | $5.61M | 0% | — |
| 34 | Office of Budget and Management | $4.92M | 0% | — |
| 35 | Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability | $4.03M | 0% | — |
| 36 | Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities | $3.26M | 0% | — |
| 37 | Chicago Commission on Human Relations | $1.67M | 0% | — |
| 38 | Board of Ethics | $925.6K | 0% | — |
| 39 | Chicago Police Board | $498.2K | 0% | — |
| 40 | License Appeal Commission | $209.99K | 0% | — |
This city's budget book publishes department totals, not individual line items, so there is nothing finer to show. The figures in the league table are the document's own department rows and add up exactly to the total it prints. Cities that publish a machine-readable export — New York and Houston, for instance — get full line-item detail here.
- Fetched
Downloaded from the city's official website and fingerprinted with SHA-256
- Extracted
Read the FY2026 appropriation table out of the document
- Reconciled
Our department figures add up to $14.8B — the same total the city printed. Extraction is discarded if they disagree.
- Human reviewpending
Pending: a person checks these totals against the city's published pages before OpenGovs calls them verified
Verified Check
Chicago can publish a live vendor register, itemized cards, and named payroll. While those files are current, the city carries a public Verified Check — the most transparent mark on the map. The badge comes off if a month is missed.
Open the monthly feed →Budget Simulator
We already hold Chicago's adopted book. Upload proposed budgets A, B, and C, simulate vs estimated, then score the scenarios when actuals land so the next round is tighter.
Simulate A, B, C →- Open document →PDFchicago-budget-2026.pdf3.3 MB · fetched Sep 13, 2026sha-256 4430303cac4a9dcac901828a6d4d83cd312195bf59634a29290366044919c514
Retrieved directly from www.chicago.gov with the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded in the city's manifest.json
Verified provenance means we can prove where the file came from and that it has not been altered — it is not a claim that a person has checked the numbers yet.