DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin and Lake County Board Chairman Sandy Hart | DuPage County/Lake County
DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin and Lake County Board Chairman Sandy Hart | DuPage County/Lake County
Nearly one-fifth of Illinois county governments are delinquent in filing annual state reports detailing their financial condition, including three of the state's largest.
DuPage, Lake and Will County are among the late filers, according to Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza, whose office compiles the reports, posting them online for public review.
Reports for the three, which document tax revenue and expenditures for last fiscal year as well as bonded indebtedness owed by county taxpayers, were due July 28.
Other counties that missed the July 28 due date: Clark, Clinton, Edwards, Effingham, Hardin, Johnson, LaSalle, McDonough, Mercer, Pulaski, Randolph and Williamson.
Champaign and Massac County reports were due Aug. 28 and haven't been filed.
Shelby County's report was due on April 28 and is deemed delinquent.
Williamson County, population 66,212, still hasn't filed its 2019 annual report either, according to Mendoza. It was due on July 27, 2020. It is the only county of the state's 102 that still hasn't filed for last year.
Several Illinois cities haven't filed annual reports with the state in years.
Washington Park, population 4,196 in St. Clair County near East St. Louis, hasn't filed a report since 2004, according to Mendoza.
Dixmoor, population 3,644 in Chicago's South Cook County suburbs, hasn't filed since 2011.
All told, 999 of Illinois' 8,527 units of government are late in filing at least one report with the state.
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