PPP loans in Cook County, Illinois
Each amount is what the Small Business Administration approved, as SBA published it, and says nothing more about the borrower. SBA guaranteed 330,807 Paycheck Protection Program loans for businesses it recorded in Cook County, $18.7 billion in all.
Cook County, as of September 30, 2024
- $18.7 billion
- Approved
- $18,742,151,992
- 50.3% of the $37.3 billion approved in Illinois.
- 330,807
- Loans
- 253,718 first draws and 77,089 second draws.
- 82.6%
- Forgiven
- 273,283 of 330,807 loans carry a forgiveness amount, $17.3 billion in all.
- 13.8%
- Charged off
- 45,507 of 330,807 loans, approved for $1.0 billion. That is the loans' size, not what SBA lost.
The largest borrowers in Cook County · 2020–21
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How the list is drawn
- 100 of the 300,574 borrowers ranked in Cook County are listed: every one ranked in the top 100, with ties. Borrowers approved the same amount share a rank, so the list can be longer than 100.
- A borrower is ranked here when SBA recorded its first loan in Cook County. Its amount is summed over every loan it was approved, a first draw, a second or both, and is not what was forgiven or repaid, which each borrower’s page shows loan by loan.
Related
Sources
- SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) FOIA — loan-level data — U.S. Small Business Administration · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 23, 2026
Data retrieved