Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Annual Rate of Change 2023-2025* Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2023-2024)* Appropriations $2,399,239 […] The post Department of Environment – BGA Policy 2026 Budget Snapshot appeared first on Better Government Association.| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Rate of Change (2011-2025) Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2011-2024) Appropriations […] The post Department of Procurement Services – BGA Policy 2026 Budget Snapshot appeared first on Better Government Association.| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Rate of Change (2017-2025)* Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2017-2024*) Appropriations […]| Better Government Association
Despite improvements in budgeting for lawsuit costs under the Lightfoot administration, police settlements continue to exceed budgets, while other departments are not required to budget for payments.| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Annual Rate of Change, 2012-2019* Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2011-2024) Appropriations $557,363,694 […] The post Department of Fleet and Facility Management – BGA Policy 2026 Budget Snapshot appeared first on Better Government Association.| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Rate of Change (2011-2025) Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2011-2024) Appropriations […] The post Department of Buildings – BGA Policy 2026 Budget Snapshot appeared first on Better Government Association.| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Rate of Change (2011-2025) Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2011-2024) Appropriations […] The post Department of Water Management – BGA Policy 2026 Budget Snapshot appeared first on Better Government Association.| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Rate of Change (2011-2025) Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2011-2024) Appropriations […]| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Rate of Change (2011-2025) Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2011-2024) Appropriations […] The post Department of Streets and Sanitation – BGA Policy 2026 Budget Snapshot appeared first on Better Government Association.| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Rate of Change (2012-2019)* Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2012-2019)* Appropriations […] The post Department of Technology and Innovation – BGA Policy 2026 Budget Snapshot appeared first on Better Government Association.| Better Government Association
Departmental Highlights Snapshot: Appropriation & Staffing Changes from 2025 Budget 2025 Budgeted 2026 Proposed Net Change Percent Change Average Annual Rate of Change (2011-2025) Inflation-adjusted Rate of Change (2011-2024) Appropriations […]| Better Government Association
The Office of Budget and Management (OBM) is responsible for the administration of the city’s budget. Because OBM oversees the preparation of each department’s budget, as well as the non-departmental […]| Better Government Association
Get the details of each department's proposed budget with BGA Budget Snapshot: day-by-day analyses of departmental budgets, released ahead of each department's City Council hearing, with a focus on major changes in the current year, new or substantially increased expense categories, and changes in budgeted staff positions.| Better Government Association
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Mayor Brandon Johnson released his proposed 2026 budget for the City of Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 16. As in previous years, BGA Policy will release a series of department-specific budget […]| Better Government Association
As BGA Policy has consistently highlighted, Illinois’ judicial branch is not subject to FOIA, leaving entities like juvenile detention centers, policies and procedures of judicial agencies, training manuals and budget […]| Better Government Association
Illinois courts are quickly falling behind in key areas of data-collection required by the state’s new Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act – a lag that is making it […]| Better Government Association
BGA Policy finds that juvenile detention centers in IL lack protections for the youth they house, while also overly relying on room confinement.| Better Government Association
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Explore the Chicago police budget and learn how the department consistently overspends its budget from 2022 to 2024.| Better Government Association
Non-departmental calculated costs and accounting adjustments make up difference, BGA Policy analysis finds| Better Government Association
BGA Policy has long documented the perils that come with the judiciary being exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. This lack of public oversight puts those in the courts’ […]| Better Government Association
The BGA is a non-partisan, non-profit news organization and civic advocate working for transparency, efficiency and accountability in government in Chicago and across Illinois.| Better Government Association
Salaries and bonuses for Chicago police officers represented by the Fraternal Order of Police in 2024 could exceed the budgeted position costs approved by City Council by $76.8 million or […]| Better Government Association
