Oswego trustees meeting as a committee of the whole Tuesday evening directed village staff to prepare an ordinance to locally extend a 1% state grocery tax set to expire at the end of the year.

The Oswego Village Board is set to take a formal vote on the measure Sept. 16. However, trustees have yet to decide whether the funds generated by the proposed grocery tax extension should remain in the village’s general fund or to direct some or all of the revenue to the Water and Sewer Fund to help with debt service payments.

The Illinois General Assembly last summer voted to eliminate the state grocery tax and Gov. JB Pritzker signed it into law in August. The repeal of the 1% state grocery tax will take effect Jan. 1, 2026.

Several Fox Valley communities have already approved ordinances to im

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