Chicago residents and businesses would pay $1.25 for every package they have delivered — whether from Amazon or another business — under a proposed ground delivery tax that could generate as much as $220 million a year.

Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th), chair of the City Council’s Committee on Economic and Capital Development, wants cash-strapped Chicago to follow the trail blazed by Colorado and Minnesota, which have imposed similar delivery fees.

Villegas’s ordinance calls for a ground delivery tax of $1.25 per package that would be imposed “on the purchaser of the tangible personal property being delivered…without regard to the number of items within” each package.

The seller would collect and remit the tax to the city on a monthly basis or be liable for the tax, plus penalties and inter

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