DuPage mayors group reverses income tax support

The day after a Daily Herald report outlined efforts by the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference to trade future “political leverage” for support of extending the state’s 5 percent income tax hike, the group has reversed course.

Following an impromptu vote by the taxpayer-funded agency’s board of directors Wednesday by phone and email, Executive Director Mark Baloga announced in an email to members that the group will remain neutral on the Democratic-controlled legislature’s plan to make the income tax hike permanent…Please click here to read Jake Griffin’s story in the Daily Herald