That's a decrease of 32 percent from 2016, when the village spent $12.34 million, or $8,764 per household.
South Chicago Heights has 1,408 households and a population of 4,139.
Since 2001, the Village of South Chicago Heights budget has fallen by 13.5 percent, from $9.69 million. The village population has grown 4.3 percent over the same period, from 3,970.
Salaries accounted for 25.5 percent of village spending in 2017. South Chicago Heights property taxpayers paid $2.14 million for 27 full-time employees and 71 part-time employees.
In 2001, the village had 36 full-time employees and 72 part-time employees, and spent $1.87 million.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.