By: Diane Benjamin

All those light tan blocks have declining Personal Income. Are all units of local government now taxing you to death because they understand the gig is up?

Go back to this story: https://blnnews.com/2023/11/30/why-bloomington/

Normal admits their population is decreasing. I don’t know where their income numbers came from, they claim the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Search that site, Normal isn’t listed.

https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income-county-metro-and-other-areas

From the County Table on this page: https://www.bea.gov/data/income-saving/personal-income-county-metro-and-other-areas