TABLE 10.-Tax Rates 1918. City of Chicago and Certain Other Cities and Villages in Cook TABLE 11.-Assessed Valuations and Taxes Extended-1918—Counties Adjacent to Cook County. TABLE 12.-Bonded Indebtedness of Local Governments in Chicago* As of December 31, 1919. Bonds Authorized but Unissued. $ 6,000,000 286,000 98,000 36,215,200 $15,157,500 Sanitary District 13,678,000 City of Chicago 81,910,700 South Park District. 4,031,000 4,031,000 West Chicago Park District. 3,156,000 3,156,000 Lincoln Park District. 2,406,000 2,406,000 Small Park Districts (a) 1,200,000 1,200,000 In 1915 the bonded indebtedness of the small park districts, according The records of the county to a statement of the Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency in "Unification of Local Governments" (1917), amounted to $953,000. Owing to the difficulty of clerks' office show that since 1915 bonds in the amount of $359,000 have been issued by the various small park districts. obtaining exact information from the fourteen small park governments, the amount of bonds actually outstanding at the close of 1919 has been estimated, with the above named figures as a basis. * Several of these governments extend outside the limits of Chicago, but they would all be involved in a consolidated government. APPENDIX No. 3-CONSTITUTION OF ILLINOIS, ARTICLE IV, SECTION 34. SECTION 34. The General Assembly shall have power, subject to the conditions and limitations hereinafter contained, to pass any law (local, special or general) providing a scheme or charter of local municipal government for the territory now or hereafter embraced within the limits of the city of Chicago. The law or laws so passed may provide for consolidating (in whole or in part) in the municipal government of the city of Chicago, the powers now vested in the city, board of education, township, park and other local governments and authorities having jurisdiction confined to or within said territory, or any part thereof, and for the assumption by the city of Chicago of the debts and liabilities (in whole or in part) of the governments or corporate authorities whose functions within its territory shall be vested in said city of Chicago, and may authorize said city, in the event of its becoming liable for the indebtedness of two or more of the existing municipal corporations lying wholly within said city of Chicago, to become indebted to an amount (including its existing indebtedness and the indebtedness of all municipal corporations lying wholly within the limits of said city, and said city's proportionate share of the indebtedness of said county and sanitary district which share shall be determined in such manner as the General Assembly shall prescribe) in the aggregate not exceeding five per centum of the full value of the taxable property within its limits, as ascertained by the last assessment either for State or municipal purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness (but no new bonded indebtedness, other than for refunding purposes, shall be incurred until the proposition therefore shall be consented to by a majority of the legal voters of said city voting on the question at any election, general, municipal or special); and may provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes within said city for corporate purposes in accordance with the principles of equality and uniformity prescribed by this Constitution; and may abolish all offices, the functions of which shall be otherwise provided for; and may provide for the annexation of territory to or disconnection of territory from said city of Chicago by the consent of a majority of the legal voters (voting on the question at any election, general municipal or special) of the said city and of a majority of the voters of such territory, voting on the question at any election, general, municipal or special; and in case the General Assembly shall create municipal courts in the city of Chicago it may abolish the offices of justices of the peace; police |