With inflation driving up the cost of just about everything, now Illinois homeowners are dealing with rising insurance rates.

According to QuoteWizard, the average insurance premium nationwide went up 2%, but the increase was larger in the Land of Lincoln.

A controversial scrap-metal operator claims in a legal filing that Mayor Lori Lightfoot was politically driven to ignore the city’s own rules and deny the controversial business a permit to open earlier this year — almost a year after it was told officials were “days away” from approving it.

In rejecting the operating permit for Southside Recycling in February, the city made a decision that was a “result of bad faith, bias and/or improper political influence,” lawyers for the business say in a recent filing with the city’s Department of Administrative Hearings.

The feud between Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Tammy Wendt and the Board of Ethics has escalated to the courts after Wendt continued to defy a rule against nepotism by refusing to fire her cousin.