When the COVID pandemic hit, Illinois sales tax revenues plunged in one place worst of all: 60611 – Chicago Sun-Times*

The 60611 ZIP code that takes in the Magnificent Mile shopping district of North Michigan Avenue and Navy Pier accounted for the state’s most dramatic plunge in sales tax collections - about one-quarter of the city’s $290 million portion of those sales tax losses. Also hard hit, though on a smaller scale, were other places that rely on retail sales and tourism to fund municipal services: mall-dependent towns like Schaumburg, Rosemont and Skokie.