CITY OF CHICAGO v. ILLINOIS COMMERCE COM'N

No. 1-96-1810.

689 N.E.2d 241 (1997)

294 Ill. App.3d 129

228 Ill.Dec. 369

CITY OF CHICAGO and Chicago Emergency Telephone System Board, Petitioners-Appellants, v. The ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION and The Illinois Telephone Association, Respondents-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

Decided December 24, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan S. Sher, Corporation Counsel, Chicago (Lawrence Rosenthal; Benna Ruth Solomon; Thomas J. Bamonte, of counsel), for Petitioners-Appellants.

Mayer, Brown & Piatt, Chicago (Stephen J. Mattson; Michele Odorizzi; Barbara E. Cohen and J. Tyson Covey, of counsel), for Respondent-Appellee The Illinois Telephone Association.

James E. Weging, Special Assistant Attorney General, Illinois Commerce Commission, Chicago, for Respondent-Appellee Illinois Commerce Comm.


Presiding Justice CERDA delivered the opinion of the court:

The City of Chicago and Chicago Emergency Telephone System Board, appellants, appeal from the assertion of regulatory authority by the Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission) appellee, over the use of 9-1-1 surcharges by local governments to fund their 9-1-1 emergency systems. The Commission promulgated regulations exempting users of a class of telephone service, called Centrex, from paying the full 9-1...

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