City of Chicago MWBE set-aside program (government contracting)

CTL-E-1354 · Policy · 1984-2003 (original program); rewritten 2004-

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Chicago enacted MWBE guidelines in January 1984 and an affirmative-action set-aside program in April 1985 (per trade press, by Harold Washington's executive order), revised it in July 1990 after Croson (25% minority / 5% women-owned goals), and saw the 18-year-old program struck down as not narrowly tailored by Judge James B. Moran on December 29, 2003 in BAGC v. City of Chicago, with a six-month stay for a rewrite.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-016; source research type(s): policy.

Sources

• CaseMine (court opinions); Public Works; Law.com (primary source)
• Public Works; CaseMine (primary source)
• Public Works
• Feminist Majority Foundation

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