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Upcoming water main replacements in Des Plaines will cost about $6.3 million, more than originally estimated.

COMMENTARY | Jacksonville is staring down the barrel of a lost decade: 10 years of squandered possibilities in downtown; another generation gone by without atoning for the city's original sin — failing to provide basic infrastructure, like drinkable water, to every neighborhood; time running out, time running short, time running thin. And to watch any one of the many dreary, endless Jacksonville City Council meetings these days is to understand, in the grainy clarity of public-access TV, why the city has reached this breaking point: A maddening vortex of cowardice, infighting, incompete...

Sometimes a jar of water is worth a thousand words. It's a vividly bright spring day, but even the mid-day sunlight cannot penetrate the liquid in the jar whose murky water came from a failed well at a house on Cordial Drive, a short street in Jacksonville where residents say they've felt forgotten when it comes to basic city services. Think a snow globe that tourist shops sell, but instead of swirling white particles suspended in liquid, the jar of water is full of heavy dark materials that eventually settle into a fingertip-thick layer at the bottom. When City Council member Danny Bect...