What are these suburban townships doing with all that extra cash? – Daily Herald*

Audits for 51 townships in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties show that 19 suburban townships had reserves exceeding a year's worth of operating expenses last year; Four had enough reserves to cover more than two years of costs. "Most taxpayers are going paycheck to paycheck and certainly don't have 2½ years' worth of expenses sitting in savings," said Bob Anderson, a Wonder Lake resident who has pushed for eliminating townships for decades.