How Elizabethtown is run
Elizabethtown spent $323,000 in the year to April 30, 2022, about $1,188 per resident.
What stands out about how Elizabethtown is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $1,188 per resident a year, or $3.25 a day
The biggest line: administration & buildings, at 29% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
Hardin County Community Unit School District 1
Elizabethtown’s K–12 school district, shared with Cave-In-Rock, Rosiclare. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $15,161 per pupil, $8,414 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Illinois districts overall: 52% local, 38% state, 10% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Elizabethtown
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Elizabethtown yet. Neighbors can add them.
One full-time town employee for every 272 residents
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Elizabethtown.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Illinois HouseState representatives
- 3Illinois SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Illinois
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Elizabethtown’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Elizabethtown is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.