Crain’s Chicago Business reports on a new study from DePaul University that shows “county line” municipalities in Cook County are, in fact, being much more adversely impacted by the Stroger sales tax hike than the county as a whole:

Retail sales declined much faster last year in Cook County communities near the county line than they did for the entire county, according to a study that seeks to measure the impact of last July’s politically charged increase in the county sales tax.

The survey by DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development and Economic Research Associates Inc. found that Cook County communities near the county line last year experienced a 5.7% drop in retail sales, compared with a 4.1% drop for the county as whole.

Meanwhile, the decline was just 1.7% for communities outside of Cook County whose geographic center is within five miles of the county line.

Yet another reason Todd Stroger’s veto of the county board sales tax hike repeal is the wrong move.