Chicago 2025 Budget Recommendations by Department and Fund

2025 fiscal year budget recommendations proposed by the Mayor of Chicago to the City Council. The dataset details line-item expenditures organized by department, appropriation account, and funding type. It is published by the City of Chicago's data portal and was last updated in October 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze funding distribution by DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTION and FUND TYPE (Local, CDBG, Grants).
• Compare proposed 2025 RECOMMENDATION amounts against 2024 APPROPRIATION and 2024 REVISED APPROPRIATION columns to track budget changes.
• Examine expenditure details using APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT DESCRIPTION and APPROPRIATION AUTHORITY DESCRIPTION fields.
• Group financial data by FUND CODE and FUND DESCRIPTION to understand revenue source allocations.

Strengths

• Contains 12 detailed columns for granular budget analysis.
• Follows a consistent format with equivalent datasets from past years, enabling temporal comparison.

Limitations

• Unknown row count and total dataset size.
• Limited to a single future fiscal year (2025), lacking historical data within this file.
• Sample data is unavailable for previewing data quality and completeness.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org

Collection Method

Produced as part of the official city budget process.

Time Range

2025 fiscal year.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-10-29.

Geography

City of Chicago, Illinois, USA.