Private company in Illinois is working with local city councils and village boards to ask that the Cook County Board exempt five of the county’s 30 townships (Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Rich and Thornton) from new prevailing wage requirements that are set to take effect in September. Company alleges that the new requirements would cripple private investment.
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