City offers 91-year-old retired teacher a "payment plan" for $57,000 water bill
City offers 91-year-old retired teacher a “payment plan” for $57,000 water bill CHICAGO (WBBM) — Getting Hosed was going to be a single story about a couple billed $58,000 for water they didn’t use. Now, it’s more than two years of chronicling unfair and potentially unlawful water billing practices in Chicago. The CBS 2 Investigators have found the City department whose taxpayer-funded responsibility it is to provide safe, affordable drinking water has utterly failed consumers and undermined our investigative efforts at every turn. We’ve long known the City takes an apa...