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Chicago Tribune: ComEd seeks four-year, $1.47 billion rate increase to bolster the grid for EVs, electrification and climate change
ComEd filed for a four-year, $1.47 billion rate increase Tuesday with the Illinois Commerce Commission to bolster its grid for the demands of EVs, electrification and climate change.
If approved by state regulators, ComEd customers will pay an average of $17 per month more for delivery charges by 2027, the utility said. The ICC will review the rate and grid plans and is expected to issue a decision by December.
Crain's Chicago Business: Small retailers seek pricing relief from Roosevelt-era antitrust law
News-Gazette: Champaign County judge says jurors need a raise for longer trials
It’s been decades since the pay rate for jury service in Champaign County was set at $10 a day, and a local judge says it’s time for a raise — at least for longer jury trials.
Champaign County Judge Ben Dyer will ask the county board Thursday to approve an increase to $40 a day for jury service in trials expected to run longer than three weeks.
Chicago Tribune: How Chicago area home values compare by ZIP code
Amid surging interest rates and inflation hitting decade highs, home values are up overall in Chicago and the suburbs.
As of December 2022, the average value of a single-family home in the Chicago area was just over $375,000 — about $20,000 above the national average.
News-Gazette: Danville denies permit for potential third cannabis dispensary
Three cannabis dispensaries in one part of town is one too many, the Danville City Council ruled in a close vote Tuesday night.
By a 7-6 margin, council members rejected a request for a special-use permit from Parkway Dispensary LLC, which came one vote shy of becoming the third licensed dispensary in the Lynch Road area on the far eastern edge of the city.