Minority and Women Business Payments

Payment totals, by quarter, for Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women Business Enterprises (WBE).

This information provides a snapshot in time and is subject to change based on available data. Also, please note that this information is related solely to contracts awarded through the Department of Procurement Services.

For more information on the MBE/WBE Program, see https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dps/provdrs/cert.html.

The data for the initial launch combined the first two quarters of 2019. Subsequent data generally cover individual quarters but occasionally may also be combined.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"cityofchicago/minority-and-women-business-payments-fa8m-mqz6\".\"minority_and_women_business_payments\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.