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Old 05-23-2012, 05:48 PM
 
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I've tried googling this, but I've never found an answer. Also wondering how this number compares to other cities.
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Old 05-23-2012, 06:23 PM
 
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Old 05-23-2012, 06:50 PM
 
Location: South Chicagoland
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There are way more than just 62. Who knows?
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Old 05-23-2012, 07:46 PM
 
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Along with 13M residents, Illinois is home to more units of government than any other state.http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archiv...districts.html
It is a fair bet that along with all the school districts, water reclamation districts, mosquito abatement districts and things like townships there are an awfully large number of suburbs. Spread across the various counties there are numerous suburbs that have just a few thousand residents. The smaller towns support a wide range of municipal employees and the various village managers, public works superintendents, police and fire chiefs, directors of community development and dozens of other employees really place a high burden on local tax payers... It is unlikely that another metropolitan area has so many suburbs all in one state -- east coast area often have suburbs that extend into neighboring states...
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Old 05-24-2012, 07:11 PM
 
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I am sure there are well over 200. Just never saw any specific number.
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Old 05-24-2012, 10:19 PM
 
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Probably use these lists as a start, other counties are part of the region to, but I don't know I'd throw every part of Grundy, Will, Kane etc in :

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Old 05-24-2012, 10:50 PM
 
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According to a 2009 study conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture there are 119 suburbs in Cook County.
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Old 05-28-2012, 04:14 PM
 
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counting through those, its a little over 200. thanks for the sources
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:06 AM
 
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Way too many.
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:57 AM
 
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Default I sorts agree, but maybe for different reasons... (and the reality is we should both hope things don't change too much)

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Way too many.
As I alluded to earlier in the thread there is good evidence that Illlinois has too many units of government -- the various duplications of roles / services contibutes to the mess that the pension system(s) are facing, really does not improve services to residents and fosters the sorts of criminal behavior that have landed out last two govenors in Federal Penitionaries...

The difficulty is that there are now THOUSANDS of permuations on "chicken & egg" type problems that preclude the consolidation of neighboring towns / library districts / fire prevention districts / school districts that often DO have signficantly different levels of service / cost / quality.

Folks in say Forest Park would dearly love to de-annex themselves from the miserable Proviso schools and align themselves with the far more desirable OPRF high, but the additional load of students would undoubtedly have a negative impact on just about everything from costs to space to atheltic teams.

Even realtive minor re-alignment of something like allowing a regional Fire Protection District to take on an expanded role / more territory does have enormous obstacles -- currently many of the area served by municipal based FP districts actually have LOWER costs becuase they utilize shared garages / fire houses, paid-on-call firefighter / paramedics that can "moonlight" in a quiet town as a way to supplement their full time salary from a more demanding /dangerous department, and have a more "volunter driven" set of elected representatives vs folks that have different incentives....

To anyone that has spent time in places like Houston or San Diego the shear geographic reach of these places means that municipal services are spread a whole lot more thinnly. That thinness creates problems with evertyhing from transit to entertainent/recreation to public safety to funding and equitable redevelopment. Think of the relative dysfunction of the Chicago City Council vs the true non-progress of the hopelessly fragment Cook Co Board, now try to imagine what would happen if Chicago covered all that and more... Not a pretty picture ...


Beleive me parts of Chicago that are not particullary interesting / hip (like say Dunning) would just be a whole lot farther from the core if City Limits were expanded to take in towns like Melrose Park / Franklin Park / River Grove etc. Smashing up perfectly functional regional commmuter rail authority that runs Metra would help no one. Schools in places like Hinsdale or even Flossmore that do better than the non-selectice admissions CPS schools would not benefit from having Karen Lewis fighting Rahm on their behalf...

Really anything that attempts to tap into even the business friendly motivations of warrehouse /intermodal hubs out past Bolingbrook and Elwood would be futile once the notorious demands of folks from Jesse Jackson, AFSCME Prsident James Connolly ad CFL head Jorge Ramirez wanted their own "cut"...
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