That's a decrease of 17.8 percent from 2016, when the township spent $317,415.
Illiopolis Township has a population of 1,314.
Since 2001, the Illiopolis Township budget has fallen by 26.8 percent, from $356,136. The township population has grown 0.9 percent over the same period, from 1,302.
Salaries accounted for 32.4 percent of township spending in 2017. Illiopolis Township property taxpayers paid $84,564 for 12 part-time employees, or an average of $7,047 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the township had seven full-time employees and two part-time employees, and spent $89,305.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.