Executive Recommendation for the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Department Line Item Budget. For more information on the budget and schedule of public hearings see http://www.cookcountyil.gov/budget/

Foreclosures recorded from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011

Every year your Cook County government budgets and spends more than $3 billion. Your County's budget impacts your life every day. All of its funding comes from you - your sales and property taxes, your purchase fees on gas and other goods. All of its spending exists to support you, too. County funding drives the forest preserve district, the jail, public hospitals and clinics, the Cook County courts and dozens of other civic institutions designed to make our region prosperous, efficient and fair.

Yet too many residents don't understand what Cook County government is or what it does. They keep asking, "where exactly does our money go?"

Commissioner John Fritchey created this budget transparency tool to answer that question, but it's only a first step. We need your help. What questions do you have about County spending? What do you want to know about the County budget that this visualization isn't explaining to you? What do you think of our spending? What can we do to make Cook County government better?

Department of GIS sponsored Municipal Incorporation Inventory (MII) project. The following agencies participated in this project: The Cook County Recorder of Deeds, Cook County Emergency Telephone System Board, Cook County Circuit Court, Archives Department, Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways, the Cook County Clerk’s Office and the Illinois State Archives Office of the Secretary of State.

The data is not guaranteed to be accurate, correct, or complete. Information provided should not be used as a substitute for legal, business, tax, or other professional advice. The recipient/viewer should contact appropriate regulating agencies to determine accuracy or suitability of the data for a particular use.

Data covers December 1, 2010 through September 22, 2011

Employee payroll data for all Cook County employees excluding Forest Preserves, indicating amount of base salary paid to an employee during the County fiscal quarter. Salaries are paid to employees on a bi-weekly basis.
Any pay period that extended between quarters will be reported to the quarter of the Pay Period End Date. (e.g. If a Pay Period runs 02/21-03/05, that pay period would be reported in the Q2 period, as the end of the pay period falls in March - Q2)

The county fiscal quarters are:
Q1: December - February
Q2: March - May
Q3: June - August
Q4: September - November

The Employee Unique Identifier field is a unique number assigned to each employee for the purpose of this data set, that is not their internal employee ID number, and allows an employee to be identified in the data set over time, in case of a name change or other change. This number will be consistent within the data set, but we reserve the right to regenerate this number over time across the data set.

The feature class LOT contains lot polygons as shown on the tax map.

Fiscal Year 2014 Adopted and Adjusted Appropriations with Final Fiscal Year 2014 Expenditures and Fiscal Year 2015 Adopted Appropriation