Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle released on Thursday, June 18, the county’s FY2027 preliminary budget forecast.
The forecast projects a budget gap of $550.7 million across the county’s General and Health Funds in FY2027.
For the FY2026 year-end, the county is projecting a surplus of $283 million in the General Fund. Several factors contributed to this positive variance including a one-time cigarette tax settlement, higher-than-anticipated sales tax revenue and a mid-year budgetary holdback to reduce costs.
In FY2027, the General Fund is expected to…
