'Phone-Bill Diet' Tour Hits Four Cities
In Three Days:
Galesburg, Peoria, Normal, Mount Prospect
CHICAGO, June 20, 2006— The Citizens Utility Board (CUB) is
Contact:
For more information call Jim Chilsen at (312) 263-4282.

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visiting four cities in three days as part of its “Put Your Phone Bill on a Diet Tour” to trim “overweight” bills of costly, unnecessary services across the state of Illinois.

CUB is holding a free phone-bill “clinic” in:

•  Galesburg on Tuesday, July 11, at 1 p.m. at the Community Center, 150 E. Simmons St.


•  Peoria on Tuesday, July 11, at 6:30 p.m. at Illinois Central College—North Campus, Cedar Hall, Room 143, 5407 N. University St.


•  Normal on Wednesday, July 12, at 10:30 a.m. at the Community Activity Center, 1 Normal Plaza, 1101 Douglas St.


•  Mount Prospect on Thursday, July 13, at 10 a.m. at the Mount Prospect Village Hall, 1st Floor, 50 S. Emerson St.


“Many consumers are paying needlessly high bills because they are signed up for
Tales of Phone-bill Clinics Past:

Visit to Elk Grove Village, May 19

Visit to Champaign and Charleston, May 16

Visit to Centralia and Mt. Vernon, May 9-10

Visit to Moline and Rock Island, April 27-28

special phone features they don’t want or need and plans that don’t fit their calling patterns,” said David Kolata, executive director of CUB. “CUB’s clinics give consumers the tools they need to navigate this jungle we call the phone market.”

At the clinic, consumers will learn CUB’s “Rules to Live By in the Phone Market,” which are tips to help them save money. Participants should bring their phone bills so CUB experts can explain all the confusing jargon and show how to reduce calling costs.

CUB is a nonprofit statewide utility watchdog organization created by the Illinois legislature to represent the interests of residential and small-business utility customers. For more information, call CUB’s Consumer Hotline at 1-800-669-5556 or visit www.CitizensUtilityBoard.org.
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