ROCKFORD, IL — Cities across Illinois could lose out on hundreds of thousands of dollars each year if Gov. JB Pritzker’s latest distribution plan for income tax revenue is adopted.
Pritzker’s proposed $56 billion budget for 2007 includes another cut to the Local Government Distributive Fund, which would keep more income tax revenue in the state’s coffers and direct a smaller share of the funds to local communities.
In dollars and cents, local officials place the funding loss from a 2011 reduction of about 3.5 percentage points at about $143.5 million, or roughly $9.5 million a year…