2026 Preliminary Budget Overview

2026 Preliminary Budget Overview

Mayor Brandon Johnson released his proposed 2026 budget for the City of Chicago. BGA Policy will release a series of department-specific budget snapshots ahead of the departmental budget hearings in City Council.

The city's budget office has made a dataset of estimated local fund revenues available, in addition to the appropriations and positions datasets, since the 2024 budget process.

Sign up for our Budget Snapshots newsletter to receive detailed analyses of individual department budgets in advance of the departmental hearings in City Council.

No grants are included in the dataset.

A preliminary summary of the overall budget and its major highlights is available.

Author's summary: Mayor Brandon Johnson proposes 2026 budget.

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