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When the calendar turns on a new year, the average Chicago household will have paid about $170 more for heat and cooking fuel than last year. The projected $1,350 price tag comes to over $112 a month on average, easily topping the $90-plus averages Chicagoans have been paying the past few years.

About 45.9% of those polled disapprove of the job Lightfoot is doing as mayor, 42.5% approve of her performance and another 10.8% are unsure or have no opinion. Also under water with Chicago residents, but by a much wider margin, is Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Just 34.7% of Chicagoans polled approve of the job the county’s top prosecutor is doing overall, 47.7% disapprove and 15.9% are unsure or have no opinion.

The local tax burden continues to shift from residential to commercial properties. Commercial landlords countywide this year collectively owe more than $7 billion, or 6.2 percent more than they were on the hook for last year, according to an analysis of 2020 tax year bills by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office. Homeowners, meanwhile, will be billed $8.9 billion, or 1.3 percent more than last year.

The foundation estimated as of June, the total costs will be $700 million, of which $500 million is slated for what the foundation calls “hard” construction costs.