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    Payments

    Metadata Updated: February 8, 2026

    All vendor payments made by the City of Chicago from 1996 to present. Payments from 1996 through 2002 have been rolled-up and appear as "2002." Total payment information is summarized for each vendor and contract number for data older than two years. These data are extracted from the City’s Vendor, Contract, and Payment Search.

    Time Period: 1996 to present.

    Frequency: Data is updated daily.

    Related Applications: City of Chicago Vendor, Contract, and Payments Search (http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/VCSearchWeb/org/cityofchicago/vcsearch/controller/payments/begin.do?agencyId=city).

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 8, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Chicago JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date February 8, 2026
    Publisher data.cityofchicago.org
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/views/s4vu-giwb
    Data First Published 2018-12-20
    Data Last Modified 2026-02-07
    Category Administration & Finance
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofchicago.org/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id eb1fcaa4-d9a0-42da-ba9c-5f182d3dadcd
    Harvest Source Id 7590e386-229e-453a-8e53-6f18e200e421
    Harvest Source Title Chicago JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/s4vu-giwb
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 516bd0d1016bc90b25da92c5f6812af427150623287a23cef1b66684b056efdb
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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