Article: Cleanup fee hike riles dry cleaners: Small shops won't survive, group warns.

Byline: Jamie Francisco

Apr. 7--A proposal to raise the environmental cleanup fees of dry cleaners in Illinois has roiled a group that represents 1,400 Korean-American dry cleaners statewide, who contend that the increase would bankrupt mom-and-pop shops. Members of the Drycleaner Environmental Response Trust Fund of Illinois, a state-appointed council that licenses dry cleaners and provides financial assistance to clean up sites contaminated by chemical spills, are scheduled to vote on the increase Friday at its monthly meeting. Officials reported to the 7-member council in March that the fund faces up to a $30 million deficit unless it raises money to ...

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