Illinois Municipal League Executive Director Brad Cole explains the League’s 2022 legislative agenda to during a news conference at the State Capitol in Springfield Tuesday.

Local government leaders are renewing their call on state lawmakers to restore funding to the Local Government Distributive Fund (LGDF) after a decade of decreases.  

Leaders with the Illinois Municipal League and 12 other local government organizations included in the Restore LGDF coalition are asking lawmakers to boost funding for the Local Government Distributive Fund back toward its original level of 10 percent of the total amount of income taxes collected by the state prior to decreases since 2011.