Ald. Gilbert Villegas: City Council should say no to raising tax on bottled water – Chicago Sun-Times

"The city already imposes a 5-cent tax on each bottle of water. Now some city leaders are considering raising that tax by 200 percent, to 15 cents. ... No other city in the nation has a bottled water tax. It is a tax that particularly punishes Black and Latino residents, who disproportionately suffer from the city’s continuing use of water service lines that are made of lead."