Capitol Fax reports:
Illinois has a little over 4 percent of the USA’s population, but it has almost 8 percent of the country’s local governments, according to a recent study by the US Census Bureau.
There's more:
Illinois has 6,968 units of local government, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s preliminary 2012 Census of Governments, released last week. Considering the state’s population of 12.8 million, that means there’s one governmental body for about every 1,800 residents.
Barack Obama's Illinois: the land of shakedown.
