That's a decrease of 5.7 percent from 2016, when the county spent $83.95 million.
LaSalle County has a population of 113,924.
Since 2001, the LaSalle County budget has grown by 15.9 percent, from $68.29 million. The county population has grown 2.2 percent over the same period, from 111,509.
Salaries accounted for 31.7 percent of county spending in 2017. LaSalle County property taxpayers paid $25.10 million for 537 full-time employees, or an average of $46,740 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the county had 584 full-time employees and nine part-time employees, and spent $20.73 million.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.