2025 Open Enrollment

(Oct. 21st – Nov. 1st, 2024) – Officially Closed

City Colleges of Chicago is pleased to offer a variety of benefit plans for calendar year 2025 to its eligible employees, retirees, and surviving spouses. Open Enrollment is your opportunity to review and select changes in benefits for next year. Please see the benefit summary guides below for full-time and part-time employees respectively.

All changes are effective January 1, 2025. Employees do not need to re-enroll unless:

  • ​​​Adding or d​ropping dependents
  • Increasing/decreasing voluntary life
  • Enrolling in or changing plans
  • Enrolling in Flexible Spending Accounts

​If you miss the enrollment deadline your next opportunity to enroll would be next fall unless you experience a Qualifying Life Event (QLE).                                       

  ​ANNOUNCEMENTS

Virtual Benefit Fairs                     

​Event​​​​​​​​​​​​​​s ​​​​​​Dates ​​ ​​​​​Times
​2025 Virtual Open Enrollment Webinar Thursday, October 24th, 2024​​​ ​11:00 AM – 12:0​​0 PM​​ (Watch the Recording)
2025 Virtual Open Enrollment Webinar  Thursday, October 31st, 2024 ​​ 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

*Register in advance for the session, after you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

**Virtual Benefit Fairs will be recorded for later viewing for employees who are unable to attend**

  • Any employee adding new dependents will be required to provide proof of the relationship. Any increases or new enrollments to voluntary life will require an Evidence of Insurability (EOI) Approval

​​​2025 Benefit Guides

​​FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES  
NBF Administrators (110)
​NBF Career Service (413 & 415)
Local 1600 (301, 303, 321, 441, & 444) & Local 1708 (421 & 431)
Guide
​Local 73 Janitors (811)
Local 399 Engineers (821)
​Guide
PART-TIME EMPLOYEES​​  
IEA-NEA Faculty (355, 365 & 366) ​​Guide​​
​Local 3506 Adult Ed & Coordinators (371 & 375) Guide​​
​Local 1708 Clerical (437) Guide
​Local 1600 Professionals (447) Guide
NBF Lecturers – Cert. Nursing, Voc. & Credit (353, 354 & 361)
​NBF Librarians (362)
NBF PT Hourly Staff (451 & 453)
NBF PT Exempt Staff (452)
NBF Temporary Staff (626)
Local 1600 Security (721)​
Guide