“‘The last thing people need after this extreme flooding, when they already face the difficult and expensive clean-up of a home and replacement of lost furniture and other household goods and are still struggling from COVID’s aftermath, is to have to worry about the threat of utility disconnections,’ said Roszalia Grillier, Co-President Emeritus of POWER-PAC IL, the statewide parent-led organization supported by Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI). ‘We urge the utilities to put themselves in the shoes of their financially struggling customers and keep the power on.’

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