Editorial: Arlington Heights looks to Chicago for new stuff to tax – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

"Arlington Heights isn’t the first suburb to put the streaming tax on the table, but implementing it would certainly make the village an early adopter. East Dundee adopted a 5 percent amusement tax in April 2022 that includes video and audio streaming services, making it the first Illinois municipality beyond Chicago to levy such a tax. Evanston also adopted a 5 percent streaming tax in 2020. And don’t forget, state lawmakers considered expanding the state’s 6.25 percent sales tax to streaming services across Illinois in the session that ended in May. That didn’t happen, but it was part of the conversation, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see that resurface."