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Share this page Follow Ballotpedia. What's on your ballot? Jump to: navigation , search. Choose your state West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming. Categories : Illinois Cities List of cities by state. Voter information What's on my ballot? Surprisingly, this reflects negative growth between estimates from and Chicago is the most populous city in the state, posting an estimated 2.
This far exceeds the population of the second most populated city, Aurora, which has just over , people according to estimates. There are 1, incorporated municipalities in Illinois, which includes cities, towns and villages.
And driving this expensive and corrupt reality on the local level is the fact that Illinois has more units of local government than any other state in the nation.
With 6, units of local government, Illinois beats its nearest competitor by more than 1, Florida, which is larger than Illinois, has far fewer units of local government, with just 1, And Illinois has more layers of general purpose local government than any other state in the country.
The next chart provides an overview of the various sources of revenue that municipalities in Illinois rely on to fund operations. State sources of revenue include shared revenues such as the state income tax and local share of the state sales tax, taxes on gaming, motor fuel and the state replacement tax. Other sources, which includes fines, fees, permits, and other miscellaneous revenues accounted for the remaining Municipalities received only 1.
According to the U. Nearly half, or of the municipalities in Illinois have fewer than 1, residents. There are municipalities with a population between 1, and 2, residents. There are municipalities with a population between 2, and 4, residents and with a population between 5, and 9, A total of municipalities in Illinois have a population of between 10, and 24, residents, and 62 municipalities have a population between 25, and 49, residents.
There are only 8 municipalities in Illinois that have more than , residents. Chicago has the largest population with approximately 2. On the other extreme, there are 49 municipalities in Illinois that have fewer than residents. This chart compares the number of municipalities in Illinois and selected states. The data in this chart were obtained from the U. Illinois has the greatest number of municipalities in all 50 states at 1,, according to the U.
Texas and Pennsylvania have the second and third highest number of municipalities in all 50 states at 1, and 1,, followed by Missouri and Iowa at and , respectively.
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