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The tax collected about $350 million from Illinois grocery shoppers and redistributed the money back to communities. Places like Rockford get as much as $8 million a year from the state's grocery ...
Beginning July 1, Illinois began suspending its 1% grocery tax for the next year to help residents keep more money in their pockets as prices continue to rise nationwide. Illinois is only one of 13...
Working on the holiday weekend, the Illinois Senate approved of a $53.1 billion budget late Sunday night. Here's what you need to know. Grocery tax eliminated under $53.1 billion budget approved ...
Several suburban mayors gathered Monday to protest a proposal to eliminate the 1% sales tax on groceries in Illinois, saying it would force reduced services or higher alternative taxes. The mayors ...
There is no sales tax on food items, but prepared meals purchased in a restaurant are subject to a meal tax of 6.25% (in some towns voters chose to add a local 0.75% tax, raising the meal tax to 7%, with that incremental revenue coming back to the town). Sales tax on liquor was repealed in a 2010 referendum vote.
The city of Peoria would consider adding its own grocery tax if Gov. JB Pritzker's effort to remove the Illinois grocery tax is ... would like to see the state's 1% tax on grocery sales come ...
Council raises concern over Illinois grocery tax. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was in Peoria two weeks ago and while here defended the end of the state's 1% grocery tax, calling it "regressive" and ...
While the governor's proposed budget includes eliminating the 1% grocery tax, there is another tax that could see a 20% increase. ... funding for programs such as Smart Start Illinois, topping ...