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Awards/FORMULA GRANT (A)

$125,717,205

Department of Transportation·Federal Transit Administration

to CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY

transportationexpiredONGOING · MOD OF 1999 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN1999-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-12·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_IL-2016-025_069
Award description

FY 2016 SECTION 5307

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Funds Chicago Transit Authority operations and capital improvements under the FTA's Section 5307 formula grant program, ongoing since 1999.

Sub-sectors
transit-formula-grantfta-section-5307public-transit-operations
Why this matters

The latest obligation on a 27-year transit program sustains public transportation for millions of Chicago-area commuters and regional economic mobility.

Supply-chain signal

Supports demand for transit vehicles, rail infrastructure maintenance, and transit-related manufacturing and services in the Chicago region.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-25. Cost: $0.002799.

Period of performance
Start
1999-10-01
End
2026-04-30
Status
expired61 days ago
Sources

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