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Board votes to maintain local grocery tax after state eliminates food sales tax
5440184 · July 22, 2025
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Summary
With the State of Illinois eliminating sales tax on groceries, Skokie’s Village Board approved a 1% municipal grocery retailers occupation tax to maintain roughly $1.2 million in annual revenue used for village operations.
Village Manager John Lockerbie told trustees that the State of Illinois will eliminate sales tax on qualified food and drug sales effective Jan. 1 and that municipalities have legislative authority to replace that revenue locally. Skokie currently receives about $1.2 million annually from grocery tax revenue; Lockerbie and staff…
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