local funding

In the March edition of ‘Ask the Mayor,’ Rockford Mayor Larry Morrissey was asked about his recent comments about the possibility of laying off police officers if local funding from Springfield is cut without police & fire pension reforms. ...

Dave Dahl -- Illinois Radio Network Senators who sit on appropriations committees spent Monday afternoon hearing tales of woe from local mayors who do not want the state to halve, as proposed, the municipal share of the state income tax revenue...