Only a few suburbs saw their share of income taxes shrink last year despite a rate increase from the Local Government Distributive Fund; no town was harder hit than Aurora, which lost $446,911 in 2023, records show. The recently approved state budget called for the LGDF rate to remain stagnant next fiscal year, which starts July 1.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.