Village hiking water rates

Rosemont is hiking its water rates by some 7 percent to pass along expected increases from the city of Chicago. The average residential water bill, which comes every three months, is $ 112 — a number expected to go up by $ 7.84, village officials said. That will work out to about $ 40 a month for water. Though Chicago had previously increased its rates, Rosemont had absorbed most of those increases, Mayor Brad Stephens said. But Chicago is planning additional increases over the next five years, Stephens said.