DeKalb Times

The City of Sycamore's local sales tax brought in $1,969,725 in 2016, according to Illinois State Comptroller revenue data. Sycamore, population 17,446, relied on its local sales tax to contribute 4 percent of total revenue that year.

Sycamore levies a 1.75 percent sales tax. The average of two suburbs in Dekalb County is 0.87. The high is 1.75 percent; the low is 0 percent.

DeKalb Times analyzed the sales tax collections in two Dekalb County suburbs and found they generated a total of $8,481,707 in tax revenue in 2016. That was the equivalent of 7% spent by local government.

Below is a list of Dekalb County municipalities' local tax revenue.