What does Chicago’s TIF program expect its next decade to look like? The city wrote it down: the “10-Year TIF Projections” report of October 15, 2025, published as a 2,246-line dataset covering all 108 districts. Its revenue lines project $9,752,734,719 flowing into the districts across 2025–2034, against $4.42 billion of projected spending on current obligations and $2.51 billion of balances already carried in — and its calendar listed 22 of the 108 districts, one in five, with anticipated end dates by the close of 2026. Every figure on this page is that report’s projection, dated to October 2025 and nothing later; what has happened since is the next report’s to say.
TIF Projections — 2025–2034 (fpsv-qjg3), 2,246 rows, one per district line item, from the city’s published report of October 15, 2025, retrieved September 9, 2026 · the whole file was downloaded and every figure recomputed · sums live within one category only — revenue, obligations, surplus, and balances are never netted against each other · the file stores spending as negative numbers; magnitudes are printed here with that convention disclosedHow the file keeps its books
The dataset’s own reading instructions do the heavy lifting. Balances are “Funds carried over from previous years that were allocated to projects but have not been spent.” The ten year columns show “the projected spending activity within the TIF boundaries over the next 10 years,” and a further column carries “cumulative costs projected beyond the next 10 years through the anticipated expiration of the TIF.” The program’s engine is quoted too: “Funds are generated by growth in the Equalized Assessed Valuation (EAV) of properties within a designated district over a period of 23 years.” Within those rules, the categories stand apart: 214 revenue lines projecting $9.75 billion over the decade (plus $4.48 billion more through district end dates), 1,737 current-obligation lines projecting $4.42 billion of spending, 67 surplus lines projecting $1.01 billion under the file’s Surplus label, 11 proposed-project lines at $333 million, and one Fund Balance line per district summing to $2,512,718,973 carried in. Thirteen rows wear labels beginning TRR — Hold, Preliminary Agenda, First Look Hold — printed exactly as filed; what TRR abbreviates, the file does not say.
The revenue decade, district by district
| District, as filed | Projected revenue, 2025–2034 |
|---|---|
| T-052 Kinzie Industrial Corridor | $1,544,204,990 |
| T-180 Red Purple Transit | $1,043,774,458 |
| T-147 LaSalle Central | $789,762,801 |
| T-063 Canal/Congress | $681,130,351 |
| T-086 Central West | $533,574,188 |
Kinzie Industrial Corridor’s projection — $1,544,204,990 — is the file’s largest by close to half a billion dollars. Two of the top five are the transit districts, Red Purple Transit among them at $1.04 billion, and the obligations section below shows where those districts’ projections point.
The biggest projected obligations point at the CTA
Ranked by ten-year magnitude, the file’s largest current-obligation line is “IGA – CTA – Red Line S Transit – Construction” at $1,052,493,322, in the Red Line S Transit district; Red Purple Transit’s Phase I City Note follows at $382,438,763, with a further $100,000,000 PayGo line. LaSalle Central carries the biggest non-transit lines: a Lake Street bridge reconstruction at $148,250,000 and a $98,000,000 redevelopment agreement at 135 S. LaSalle. These are projected payments in the October 2025 report — a different instrument from the Council-approved deal amounts in our TIF deals piece, and the two are never reconciled here.
The calendar: 22 endings by 2026, one anticipated end in 2058
Each district carries the end year the October 2025 report anticipated, and the distribution is the story: 9 districts carried a 2025 end year — a year now past, and whether each in fact closed is not in this file — and 13 carried 2026; 22 of the 108, one in five, inside the report’s first two years. Seventeen run to 2034, the calendar’s modal year. At the far end sit the transit districts again: Cicero Stevenson to 2046, Red Purple Transit to 2052, and Red Line S Transit to 2058 — a TIF district scheduled to outlive every other in the file by six years. Anticipated end dates, as the file’s own column defines them.
- Source: the city’s TIF Projections — 2025–2034 dataset (fpsv-qjg3), the data behind the published 10-Year TIF Projections report of October 15, 2025; 2,246 rows retrieved September 9, 2026. The whole file was downloaded and every figure recomputed; quoted lines are the description’s own.
- Projections: every number on this page is a projection as published in that report — none is a receipt, payment, or event, and later reports may supersede these figures. Ten-year sums add the 2025–2034 columns; through-end-date figures are the file’s own further column.
- Category silos: revenue, current obligations, surplus, proposed projects, transfers, and fund balances are summed within their own category labels and never netted; spending is stored negative in the file and printed here as magnitudes with the convention stated.
- Not here: no assessment of any district, no netting into a ‘bottom line,’ no meaning invented for the TRR labels; the program’s own pages live at cityofchicago.org/tif.
Computed by KCM Desk from the city’s TIF projections dataset, retrieved September 9, 2026. If you spot an error, corrections come first.
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