Chicago Contractor Diversity Reports: 400 Filings, None For 2024

Under a 2021 executive order, many Chicago contractors must report each year on their business diversity programs. The file that collects those reports holds 400 of them from 266 filers — distinct vendor numbers, the only business identifier this page uses to tell filers apart — and its newest years are nearly empty: 211 reports cover calendar 2021, 35 cover 2023, none at all cover 2024, and eight cover 2025 — six of those filed after the July 1 due date the file itself names.

Contractor Business Diversity Program Submissions (a5x7-5y4m), 400 reports from 266 vendor numbers, submission dates June 22, 2021 through July 21, 2026, retrieved September 16, 2026; the file was last updated August 5, 2026 · scope, in the file’s own words: it “lists those businesses that have such programs,” so it is not a roster of city contractors and no compliance rate can be read from it · no business is named here and no street address was read · the file records no program content and no outcome · no filer is judged

Six reporting years, and one of them is empty

The reporting years 2020 through 2025, the range the file spans, with the number of reports it holds for each; the zero is what a check of 2024 returns.
Reporting year (a calendar year)	Reports in the file
2020	104
2021	211
2022	42
2023	35
2024	0
2025	8

The file holds no record for calendar 2024 — not a low count, but zero — and eight for 2025. What that means is not in the file: it could be that no report was filed for that year, that the businesses that filed reported no program and so fall outside a file of businesses that have one, or that those records are simply not published here. The file was last updated on August 5, 2026, five weeks after the July 1, 2026 date its own column note gives for 2025 reports; this page reads that snapshot, and later records could still be added to it.

Almost three-quarters of the reports arrived in a single year

By the date they were submitted rather than the year they cover, 281 of the 400 reports — 70.3 percent — came in during 2022: 180 of them covering calendar 2021 and 101 covering 2020 — reports for both of the program’s first two years, though not every report for either, arriving in that one year. Submissions then fall away: 63 in 2023, 34 in 2024, 11 in 2025 and 10 so far in 2026. One report predates all of it, filed June 22, 2021.

Measured against the file’s own July 1 deadline

A negative median means the typical report arrived before the deadline. Calendar 2024 has no row because the file holds no 2024 reports.
Reporting year	Filed by July 1 of the next year	Filed later	Median days from the deadline
2020	1	103	+341
2021	130	81	+0
2022	12	30	+34
2023	22	13	-4
2025	2	6	+7

The first cycle is the outlier and the reason is dated: 103 of the 104 reports covering calendar 2020 arrived after July 1, 2021, at a median of 341 days past it — a deadline that fell months after the executive order creating the requirement was signed in 2021. Set that first cycle aside and the record is mixed rather than late: for calendar 2021 the median report arrived exactly on the due date, and for 2023 four days early, while 30 of 42 reports for 2022 came in after the date, at a median of 34 days. Across every year but 2020, 130 of 296 reports — 43.9 percent — arrived after the deadline.

Who files, and how often

All 400 reports by the size band the filing business selected.
Employees, as the business reported	Reports	Share of reports
Under 10	28	7.0%
10 to 50	94	23.5%
50 to 200	79	19.8%
200 to 500	39	9.8%
500 to 1,000	21	5.3%
1,000 and above	139	34.8%

The file leans large: 139 reports, 34.8 percent, come from businesses reporting 1,000 or more employees, against 28 from businesses under 10. Most filers appear once and are not seen again — 184 of the 266 vendor numbers file a single report, 50 file twice, 15 three times, 14 four times, and three file five times — once for each year the file has reports. That leaves 82 businesses, 30.8 percent, filing in more than one year.

Three-quarters of the reports carry an Illinois address, and nearly half a Chicago one

296 of the 400 reports, 74.0 percent, list an Illinois address, and 190 — 47.5 percent of all reports — list Chicago itself. The remaining 104 come from 25 other states, none of which appears more than 14 times; the suburbs seen most often are Itasca with nine reports and Elk Grove Village with eight, and the most frequent city outside Illinois is Kansas City with seven. For location the city, state and zip fields were read; the street address was never selected.

The business-type column cannot be grouped

400 reports carry 134 distinct business-type values, and 166 of them contain the text “NAICS CODES” — a reference to the federal industry-code system — sometimes with a code appended and sometimes not. The most common single value, ARCH-ENG-CONST, appears on 84 reports, followed by IT on 18 and FINANCIAL on 16. Because the column mixes a short code list with free-typed text, this page counts its values and does not group them into industries.

What the file confirms, and what it cannot tell you

Confirmed, as filed: for each report, the vendor number behind it, the year it covers, the date it was submitted, the size band and business type the filer selected, and the city and state on it. What no column read here holds: how many contractors were required to report, which is the denominator a compliance rate would need; what any program does or whom it reached; whether a business without a report has no program or simply did not file; and why the 2024 year is empty. The file lists businesses that reported having a program, so it cannot be read as a census of contractors.

Where the record lives

The submissions file sits on the city’s data portal, where it was last updated August 5, 2026. Every figure here was computed from it as retrieved on September 16, 2026.

The bottom line

Asked what the city’s contractor diversity-program file records, the answer is 400 reports from 266 filers, seven in ten of them submitted in 2022, leaning heavily toward large firms and Illinois addresses — and a record that thins to 35 reports for 2023, none for 2024 and eight for 2025. Whether that reflects reporting, publication or the program itself is not something this file can settle.

Two more questions the file can answer

Who filed for 2025? Eight filers, between June 30 and July 21, 2026 — two by the July 1 date and six after it. And how far does the file reach beyond Illinois? To 25 other states across 104 reports, the largest of them California with 14.

Source: the city’s Contractor Business Diversity Program Submissions file (a5x7-5y4m): 400 reports, submission dates June 22, 2021 through July 21, 2026, retrieved September 16, 2026 and read whole.
Scope, from the file: under Executive Order 2021-2 many city contractors must report annually on their business diversity programs, and this file “lists those businesses that have such programs,” including contractors who described related efforts. It is not a list of all contractors, so no share of contractors is computed here.
Columns read: record id, vendor number, submission date, business type, employee band, city, state, zip and reporting year. Business names and street addresses were never selected, and distinct businesses are counted by vendor number.
The deadline: the file’s own note on the reporting-year column says the period is a calendar year with reports due the following July 1; that date, and only that date, is what on time and later mean here.
Not here: no business named, no program content or outcome, no compliance rate, and no judgment of any filer.

Computed by KCM Desk from the city’s contractor business diversity program submissions file, retrieved September 16, 2026. Human-guided and edited — about this desk. If you spot an error, corrections come first.