Flossmoor Mayor Paul Braun is asking residents to support a statewide initiative to prevent proposed cuts to the Local Government Distributive Fund (LGDF), a longtime revenue source for municipalities across Illinois.

In his summer message to Flossmoor residents, posted late last month on the community’s website, Braun said the village would lose about $468,000 a year if LGDF funds are cut by 50 percent in the new state budget. Governor Bruce Rauner proposed…


