General
This dashboard was created to track funds flowing through the
City of Chicago, Cook County, and State of Illinois for COVID-19
response, and to capture economic recovery programs and infrastructure
programs relevant to CCT’s institutional priority areas. The dashboard
can be used by community stakeholders, policy researchers, and those
interested in learning more about COVID-19 recovery and infrastructure
investments to learn about funding allocations and spending priorities
across different jurisdictions
Allocation and expenditure data are compiled from federal agency
reports, public spending plans, grant announcements, and budget reports
from our three geographies of focus. For each program, the data source
and source links are listed in the programs table.
The programs chart shows the subset of the total projects
included in the dashboard matching the selected policy topic,
jurisdiction, and/or legislation. The size of each project box in the
chart is proportionate to the share of total funding shown in the chart
represented by each project (e.g. if a project represents 10% of the
total funding in the chart, the area of that project box will be 10% of
the total chart area). For some combinations of policy topic,
jurisdiction, and legislation, there are many projects displayed in the
chart which forces the size of some projects with smaller funding
amounts to be too small to display the project name and allocation. The
name and allocation for those projects is provided in the programs
description table.
Yes. The dashboard will be updated on a continual basis as new
information on fund allocations and expenditures becomes publicly
available.
Recovery Funds Dashboard
This dashboard reflects the subset of funds from the American
Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
Security Act (CARES), and the Coronavirus Response and Relief
Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA) provided directly to Chicago,
Cook County, and Illinois that align with the priority policy areas
identified by the Chicago Community Trust. In the case of Chicago, the
dashboard also reflects a local General Obligation Bond which the city
paired with ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) in its
Recovery Plan.
This dashboard does not include funds that flow directly from
the federal government to public housing authorities, school districts
or educational institutions, individuals and households, and
nongovernmental organizations including nonprofit organizations and
private sector businesses. The dashboard also does not include funds
used for revenue replacement and operations. Additionally, some funds
under SLFRF may fall under categories that do not reflect the CCT’s core
priority policy areas of focus and are not captured in the
dashboard.
Selected programs reflect a subset of major federal economic
recovery funds and infrastructure funds. For the recovery dashboard, the
CCT reviewed funding allocations across jurisdictions and selected
programs that align with their institutional priority policy areas in
supporting economic recovery: community investment, community safety,
household investment, housing, and workforce development. For the
infrastructure dashboard, the CCT reviewed funding allocations across
jurisdictions and selected programs in the following areas: transit;
roads, bridges, and major projects; airports; electric vehicles; water
infrastructure; rail; broadband; and traffic safety. We also include
total amounts of CARES state and local discretionary funding for which
we do not have more specific information on how the funds were
spent.
The State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program is an
allocation within ARPA of $350 billion to state, local, and tribal
governments across the country. While some ARPA funds can only be used
for specific purposes, such as emergency housing or small business
assistance, SLFRF are flexible funds that state, county, and local
governments can use for a wider range of programs to aid response to and
recovery from COVID-19. A full list of applicable uses of SLFRF funds
can be found on the U.S.
Department of the Treasury website, and more information on each
funding source in the dashboard can be found in the glossary.
The dashboard categorizes recovery funding allocations across
five topics and twenty subtopics that map budget line items from local,
county, and state recovery plans to the Chicago Community Trust’s
priority policy areas and strategies in its work supporting inclusive
recovery. The dashboard categorizes infrastructure funding allocations
across eight topics used in data provided by the White House
Infrastructure Implementation Task Force. See the glossary for a
definition of each topic and subtopic included in the dashboard. The
topics may change and may feature additional categories as new
information on allocations and expenditures becomes available.
The dashboard does not currently feature expenditure data, but
will be updated with spending data for selected programs as information
becomes available. Spending information can be pulled from public state,
county, and local government expenditure reports, including legislative
budget reports and mandatory recovery plan performance reports to the
U.S. Treasury Department. Spending information for regional entities and
tribal governments that received federal funding – which are not
included in this dashboard – can be pulled in the same manner. Reporting
requirements and deadlines vary by program.
The ARPA SLFRF-funded programs included in the dashboard are
sourced from line item programs as listed by local, county, and state
governments in public ARPA recovery plan reports. In some cases, these
reports list multiple programs under one broad spending category, with
one budget number for all programs—for instance, a public safety
category may include three separate programs listed under one total
budget number for all public safety initiatives, without allocations for
each program. The “amount exact?” column indicates where we have split
the total program budget evenly across multiple line items to generate
an estimated average amount per program, and where we have pulled the
exact budget number for one line item program.
The dashboard features maps for selected programs for which
expenditure data at the zip code level is available. We are working to
add more programs to this section as we identify more recovery and
infrastructure programs with zip code-level spending data
available.
Infrastructure Funds Dashboard
This dashboard reflects a subset of funds from the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) provided directly to the
City of Chicago, Cook County, the Chicago Transit Authority, the
Regional Transit Authority (Pace and Metra), Chicago-area airports, and
the State of Illinois. Funds come from major programs (at least $1
billion in funding over the five-year spending window) that align with
the priority policy areas identified by the CCT and provide funding
directly to state and local governments and local transit districts.
This dashboard does not track funds spent directly by federal
agencies, or funds that flow directly from the federal government to
utility providers or public utility districts, economic development
authorities, school districts, nonprofit organizations, and private
sector businesses.
Funding allocated to entities such as Amtrak, economic development
authorities, and regional planning councils for spending in the relevant
geographies may be added to the dashboard as data become available. The
dashboard does not currently display “pass-through funding,” that is,
funding passed from its original recipient to another jurisdiction where
it is ultimately spent.
Allocated funds are designated total possible funds for a
jurisdiction for a specific project purpose. Awarded funds are the final
amount disbursed to a jurisdiction, and may reflect subdivisions of an
allocation.