Built for Illinois Municipalities
From the Local Records Act retention schedules and the 5-day FOIA window to GASB-compliant CAFRs and IMRF pension RSI — MuniNow ships with the filings, workflows, and deadlines Illinois cities, villages, and townships actually operate against.
Built with Illinois law in mind
Illinois has roughly 1,300 incorporated municipalities plus more than 1,400 townships and thousands of special-purpose districts. Each operates against a specific set of statutes: the Local Records Act governs document retention and destruction, the Freedom of Information Act gives residents 5 business days for a response, the Open Meetings Act sets posting windows for agendas, and the Illinois Municipal Code shapes everything from home-rule authority to TIF districts.
MuniNow treats these as first-class workflows, not checklist items. The Records Retention module ships 14 Illinois-specific schedules with legal citations and a destruction approval workflow. The AI Review Hub powers semantic search and PII detection for the 5-day FOIA response window. The General Ledger and Reporting modules generate GASB-compliant CAFRs that double as the basis for the Illinois Comptroller's AFR submission. And every citizen interaction — a permit, a utility bill, a service request — happens on a portal that expects residents to self-serve.
Illinois-specific capabilities
Baseline platform features tuned for Illinois statutes, filing windows, and operating realities.
Illinois Local Records Act retention schedules
Fourteen Illinois-specific retention schedules ship seeded with legal citations — ordinances, meeting minutes, financial records, personnel files, public works records, and more. Retention triggers include creation date, last modified, closure, superseded, and custom dates. A daily cron sweep identifies eligible records and routes destruction requests through an approval → execute → destroyed workflow with metadata snapshots preserved as disposition certificates.
Illinois FOIA — 5-day response workflow
Illinois FOIA's 5-business-day response window is tight. The Records Retention and AI Review Hub modules work together: inbound requests route to the FOIA officer, the AI Review Hub searches document chunks semantically to surface relevant records, PII detection flags SSN, DOB, and financial data for redaction, and the interactive Redaction Studio permanently burns redactions into the released PDF.
GASB-compliant CAFR for Illinois entities
Full GASB 34/44/68/75/87/96/103 coverage. Illinois non-home-rule municipalities, home-rule units, and special districts file under the same standards; MuniNow generates the 16-section CAFR package and routes audit adjustments through a dedicated auditor portal — useful for the Illinois Comptroller AFR filing and local external audits alike.
Property tax with PIN-based parcels
APN/PIN-based parcel identification works with the Illinois 14-digit permanent index number format. Assessed and equalized assessed values track per fiscal year. Homestead, senior, disability, and veterans exemptions are supported. Batch bill generation runs on the township- or county-issued bill cycle and posts AR invoices automatically.
Open Meetings Act compliance
Meeting agendas publish to the citizen portal in advance of the statutory posting window. Real-time WebSocket voting captures roll-call votes (yay, nay, abstain, recuse, absent). AI-generated minutes via Gemini multimodal transcription produce structured output that stands up to open-records scrutiny.
Pension & OPEB reporting for IMRF entities
GASB 68/75 Required Supplementary Information schedules maintain 10 years of net pension liability, deferred inflows/outflows, contributions, and actuarial assumptions — the exact schedules Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) employers and police/fire pension fund employers file year after year.
See an Illinois configuration live
A 45-minute walkthrough tailored to your municipality — Local Records Act retention in action, a FOIA redaction flow, and a GASB-compliant CAFR generated from demo data.