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CHICAGO – Businessman and Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson is calling for gas and electric utilities to stop outages.
On Monday, Wilson unveiled a “Plan of Difficulty” to help people avoid cutting out power or heating.
“For every new business here that comes into the city of Chicago, we should take two percent, three percent, five percent of the new business revenue and use that and call it a ‘hardship program’ to help people pay for gas, electric bill, save their homes,” Wilson said.
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Chicago-area electric and gas providers are leading the nation in utility outages for people who can’t pay their bills.
A new report cited both ComEd and Nicor gas.
Last year, ComEd canceled service for more than 200,000 customers and Nicor stopped service for 24,000 customers. These are both increases over the previous year.
