245,027,287
732,176,438
813,425,172
899,790,535
991,547,594
1,089,032,562
1,192,578,487
$1.93 billion
RTA's budget shortfall
$1.2 billion
$0.8
$1.0
$0.6
$0.4
$0.2
$0.0
'25
'26
'27
'28
'29
'30
'31
$1.93 billion
2031
“The current structure, divided among 47 board members across four separate boards, creates competition instead of collaboration, often putting the city and suburbs at odds and spreading resources thin.”
If I have an opportunity to send my child to Lindblom (a selective enrollment high school), I’m not going to trade that for the school across the street that has nothing. You’d be crazy.”
—Darlene O’Banner
— State Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado, D-Chicago