These are the 10 Highest-Paid City Managers in Illinois

A new report featured in Forbes Magazine found 72 city managers of relatively small municipalities in Illinois are paid more than the governors of every state.

Open the Books’ annual “Big Dogs” salary report on local government looks not only at city or village managers, but also employees of water districts, park districts, forest preserves and counties, to name a few.

Forbes contributor and founder of OpenTheBooks.com, Adam Andrzejewski, says the results of this year’s report are the “most jaw-dropping ever.”

From the report:

At a time when many are complaining about Washington, D.C., our data shows that states and local units of government need a lot more scrutiny. That’s especially true in Illinois where corruption is our number one manufactured product.

Here are the municipalities with the Top 10 highest-paid city and village managers in Illinois.

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