Cook County’s penny-per-ounce soda tax is just the latest in a long history of beverage taxes in Chicago.

Suburbs such as Downers Grove make dining out costlier through tax hikes.

AFSCME officials proposed seven tax increases for Cook County as a way to save union jobs, including an increase in the county sales tax, a new head tax and doubling the amusement tax to 6 percent, despite the county’s local tax burden already being among the highest in the nation.

Taxes on alcoholic beverages in Illinois are among the highest in the Midwest.

The combined federal, state, county and city taxes on alcohol result in a 28 percent effective tax rate on a bottle of spirits bought in Chicago.

Illinois’ current state excise taxes per gallon of beer ($0.23), wine ($1.39) and spirits ($8.55) are higher than most neighboring states.