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Cities, Counties and the Urge to Merge Consolidating governments is hard to do, but the idea keeps coming up. September 27, 2012 • Consolidating city and county governments is an idea with intuitive appeal. In a country with nearly 90,000 units of local government, wouldn’t it make sense to combine some of them to reduce duplication of services and gain economies of scale? The boundaries of our cities and counties were established long ago centuries ago, in some cases for reasons that often have been forgotten. And many of the problems our governments face today pay no attention to political boundaries established when a day’s horseback ride might have determined the location of a county seat. ....
Northern Star DeKALB – The consolidated elections are coming up on April 6, but early voting has already begun. In light of this, NIU experts talk about what local governments are, how they impact all residents and why students should vote. Chief of Staff Matt Streb, moderated a panel with two political science experts to discuss why local elections matter from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday via Zoom. The municipal elections are nonpartisan, meaning voters do not vote for a democratic or a republican candidate. This is because, during the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, progressives wanted to break the power of the parties over municipal services, said Gregory Kuhn, interim director for the Center of Governmental Studies. ....
Originally published on March 2, 2021 6:16 pm Illinois has long held the record for the most units of local government in any state 8,923 local taxing bodies to be exact, according to a recent report by the Chicago-based Civic Federation. This total is higher than estimates from other government officials, including the U.S. Census Bureau, Illinois Department of Revenue, and state Comptroller’s office. In addition to county and municipal governments, Illinois has many special districts designed to provide a specific public service including school districts, drainage districts, fire protection districts, road and bridge districts, and cemetery districts. However, not all of these districts are counted in the same manner. Although both the Civic Federation and the Comptroller’s office tally the number of local governments in the state at over 8,000, the Census Bureau’s numbers are closer to 7,000, and the department of revenue’s count has it at around ....