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Illinois School System Audit 2026 — Downstate County Series

Downstate Counties — Batch 2

Northern Illinois — KANKAKEE · TAZEWELL · WHITESIDE · LEE · BUREAU · HENRY · MERCER · HENDERSON · WARREN · FULTON
10Counties This Batch
92Districts Covered
$2350MTotal Bond Exposure
0Anomaly Flags
Batch 2/10Coverage Progress
◆ KEY THREAD: Rita Crundwell (Dixon, Lee County) stole $53M from city over 20 years — same oversight failure pattern applies to every county school system on this list. Mercer County shows $886M bond exposure requiring immediate review.
Kankakee County$521.7M bonds
10Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
UNMATCHED$323.5M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$45.8M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$34.6M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$32.8M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$31.1M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
Tazewell County$305.8M bonds
25Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
UNMATCHED$58.1M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$50.6M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$47.5M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
District 50 Schools$29.5M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
District 50 Schools$28.6M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
Whiteside County$51.1M bonds
4Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
UNMATCHED$27.0M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$19.4M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$3.4M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$1.3M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
Lee County$61.9M bonds
6Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
UNMATCHED$45.5M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$12.8M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$1.1M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$1.1M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$1.0M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
Bureau County$393.2M bonds
12Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
UNMATCHED$185.6M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$57.3M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$52.2M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$40.4M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$25.4M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
Henry County$9.2M bonds
3Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
UNMATCHED$7.5M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$1.6M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$0.0M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
Mercer County$886.1M bonds
29Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$15.78MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
Mercer County School District 404$303.5M$0.0M$0.54MTBD
Mercer County School District 404$99.0M$0.0M$0.54MTBD
Mercer County School District 404$93.7M$0.0M$0.54MTBD
Mercer County School District 404$91.2M$0.0M$0.54MTBD
Mercer County School District 404$36.6M$0.0M$0.54MTBD
Henderson County$4.7M bonds
1Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
UNMATCHED$4.7M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
Warren County$116.8M bonds
2Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend
DistrictTotal BondsLife SafetyFPS SpendPriority
UNMATCHED$86.5M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
UNMATCHED$30.2M$0.0M$0.00MTBD
Fulton County— bonds
0Districts
0High Priority
$0.0MLife Safety Bonds
$0.00MFPS Fund Spend

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