Board of Education of the City of Chicago: Chicago Government PaymentsGovernment payee
as recorded by Chicago: BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
This payee is itself a government entity, public authority, or public fund, not a private vendor. Its payments appear here because they are on the Chicago city government ledger.
Board of Education of the City of Chicago is the 21st-largest recipient of Chicago city government payments tracked by SpendLedger. Its payments amount to 36.8% of everything the Department of Planning and Development has paid vendors in that span. Payments to it rose 270491.6% year over year.
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Payments by fiscal year
The payment history
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4 fiscal years on record. The incoming flows below combine all recorded years.
Fiscal years may be partial; missing years are not zero spending. Negative columns reflect net refunds or corrections. Amounts share a linear scale.
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Feb 9, 2022 to Dec 29, 2025 · All recorded fiscal years
Showing 5 of 5 positive agencies in these records.
Flow widths compare the relationships shown. Percentages use the full recorded supplier total for this period: $160,376,160.69. Zero and net-negative relationships are excluded from positive flows.
The relationships at a glance
- Total shown
- $160,376,160.69
- Payments represented
- 102
- Paying agencies shown
- 5
- Largest share of supplier total
- 81.6%
Largest displayed relationship: Department of Planning and Development. Select a flow to explore its details.
Feb 9, 2022 to Dec 29, 2025 · All recorded fiscal years. Amount and payment count cover the relationships shown; shares use the full supplier total.
Board of Education of the City of Chicago
$160,376,161from the agencies shownBoard of Education of the City of Chicago
$160,376,161 from the agencies shown
- $130,823,52081.6% of supplier total
- $21,572,90913.5% of supplier total
- $5,439,4643.4% of supplier total
- $2,390,2681.5% of supplier total
- $150,000<0.1% of supplier total
This is a selection, not a full spending breakdown. Other agencies are not included in the flow. Some recorded agencies have no public profile link. Coverage may be partial. Review the agency table.
Payments by fiscal year and agency
| Fiscal year | Agency | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2025 | Department of Planning and Development | 56 | $130,823,520 |
| FY 2025 | Unknown Department | 2 | $8,210,587 |
| FY 2025 | Chicago Department of Public Health | 19 | $5,439,464 |
| FY 2025 | Department of Family and Support Services | 3 | $2,390,268 |
| FY 2025 | Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events | 1 | $150,000 |
| FY 2024 | Unknown Department | 2 | $54,331 |
| FY 2023 | Unknown Department | 9 | $5,688,049 |
| FY 2022 | Unknown Department | 10 | $7,619,943 |
| Total | 102 | $160,376,161 |
Largest payments by fiscal year
The biggest individual payments in each fiscal year, up to 20 per year. Where the source publishes a purchase order behind a payment, the PO description appears; older payments may carry a bare PO reference because the government's published PO files do not reach back that far.
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FY 2025top 20 of 81 payments$147,013,838
FY 2024top 2 of 2 payments$54,331
| Date | Agency | Amount | Category | Purchase order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2024 | Unknown Department | $53,615.52 | – | – |
| Feb 6, 2024 | Unknown Department | $715.00 | – | – |
FY 2023top 9 of 9 payments$5,688,049
| Date | Agency | Amount | Category | Purchase order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 2023 | Unknown Department | $1,042,678.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Unknown Department | $1,000,000.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Unknown Department | $1,000,000.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Unknown Department | $750,000.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Unknown Department | $720,680.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Unknown Department | $687,768.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Unknown Department | $357,163.67 | – | – |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Unknown Department | $129,099.28 | – | – |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Unknown Department | $660.00 | – | – |
FY 2022top 10 of 10 payments$7,619,943
| Date | Agency | Amount | Category | Purchase order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2022 | Unknown Department | $1,700,000.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Unknown Department | $1,145,000.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Unknown Department | $1,000,000.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Unknown Department | $891,776.86 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Unknown Department | $860,845.53 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Unknown Department | $750,000.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Unknown Department | $684,234.15 | – | – |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Unknown Department | $262,524.74 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Unknown Department | $197,900.00 | – | – |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Unknown Department | $127,661.55 | – | – |
Recent payments
Other vendors serving Department of Planning and Development
- Chicago Transity Authority. $41,205,968
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- K.l.e.o. Community Family Life Center $9,000,000
- Cbre Inc. $917,315
VerifiedData refreshed Sep 24, 2026 from Chicago Checkbook (data.cityofchicago.org): 266,483 payments on record, Jan 3, 2022 to Dec 31, 2025. How we verify this data