That's an increase of 44.5 percent from 2014, when the village spent $1.01 million, or $6,080.72 per household.
Congerville has 166 households and a population of 474.
Since 2001, the Village of Congerville budget has grown by 159.7 percent, from $561,700. The village population has grown 1.7 percent over the same period, from 466.
Salaries accounted for 4.4 percent of village spending in 2015. Congerville property taxpayers paid $64,690.44 for five part-time employees, or an average of $12,938.09 each, before their health care benefits and taxpayer-funded pension contributions.
In 2001, the village had seven part-time employees and spent $30,800.34, or $4,400.05 each.
All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.