Federal contractor · CHICAGO, IL

CITY OF CHICAGO

CITY OF CHICAGO received $51.5K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−30% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $3.9M. Its largest customer was Railroad Retirement Board ($51.5K). It also received $10M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$51.5K
New awards
6
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Other than small businessGovernment entity
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

2 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $386.8K in FY2026 together.

  1. CITY OF CHICAGOCHICAGO, IL · Family page
    $51.5K
  2. CITY OF CHICAGOCHICAGO, IL
    $335.3K

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 596KFY2017
  2. 485.4KFY2018
  3. 722.6KFY2019
  4. 830.7KFY2020
  5. 402.2KFY2021
  6. 363.8KFY2022
  7. 379.6KFY2023
  8. 20.8KFY2024
  9. 73.4KFY2025
  10. 51.5KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Railroad Retirement Board$51.5K100%
    6 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Facilities & utilities$51.5K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cook County, IL$51.5K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $51.5K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $51.5K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Railroad Retirement Board$51.5K
    Railroad Retirement Board · 2 awards

Largest awards

  1. CITY OF CHICAGO WATER BILL ACCOUNT ENDING 132$70K
    Railroad Retirement Board· Cook County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Sep 4, 2025 – Dec 30, 2025· 60RRBH25P0002
  2. FY24 CITY OF CHICAGO WATER BILL ACCOUNT ENDING 132$21.6K
    Railroad Retirement Board· Cook County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Nov 13, 2023 – Aug 7, 2026· 60RRBH24P0020
  3. CITY OF CHICAGO WATER BILL ACCOUNT ENDING 132$20K
    Railroad Retirement Board· Cook County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Aug 26, 2026 – Aug 26, 2026· 60RRBH26P1025
  4. FY26 CITY OF CHICAGO WATER BILL, ACCOUNT ENDING 131$5,000
    Railroad Retirement Board· Cook County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Jun 10, 2026 – Jun 10, 2026· 60RRBH26P1016
  5. WATER BILL FOR HEADQUARTERS$1,378
    Railroad Retirement Board· Cook County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Nov 10, 2022 – Nov 25, 2025· 60RRBH23P0013
  6. CITY OF CHICAGO WATER BILL ACCOUNT ENDING 131$0
    Railroad Retirement Board· Cook County, IL· Facilities & utilities· Sep 4, 2025 – Aug 10, 2026· 60RRBH25P0105

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

CITY OF CHICAGO received $10M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (1 new awards). Its largest program was 66.443 · Reducing Lead in Drinking Water (Sdwa 1459B) ($10M).

Assistance · FY2026
$10M
New awards
1
Actions
1
Since FY2024
$11.9M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 2MFY2024
  2. 0FY2025
  3. 10MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$10M100%

Top programs

  1. 66.443 · Reducing Lead in Drinking Water (Sdwa 1459B)$10M100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Environmental Protection Agency$10M100%

Largest awards

  1. DESCRIPTION:THE AGREEMENT PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO THE CITY OF CHICAGO, DEPARTMENT OF WATER MANAGEMENT (DWM) TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A…$10M
    66.443 · Reducing Lead in Drinking Water (Sdwa 1459B)· Environmental Protection Agency· Grant· Jun 3, 2026 – Jun 3, 2026· 00E08003

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $31.5M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $13.5M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

4 companies · $1.1M reported

  1. COOK, COUNTY OF$501.5K
    CHICAGO, IL · 1 subaward
  2. NAMI CHICAGO$442.5K
    CHICAGO, IL · 1 subaward
  3. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$100K
    URBANA, IL · 1 subaward

Primes that pay it

5 companies · $74.4M reported

  1. ILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY$45M
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 8 subawards
  2. CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY$27.5M
    CHICAGO, IL · 7 subawards
  3. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION$1.6M
    SPRINGFIELD, IL · 3 subawards

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 3 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. DEPARTMENT OF POLICE PUERTO RICO$840K−50% in FY2026
    SAN JUAN, PR · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Investigation and security services
  2. MADISON COUNTY PROSECUTOR$947.4K+9.2% in FY2026
    ANDERSON, IN · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Investigation and security services
  3. HARRIS COUNTY$1.6M+256% in FY2026
    HOUSTON, TX · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveSocial Security Administration · Investigation and security services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026.