Chicagoans missing out on tax break

Low-income residents are forfeiting $100 million a year in Chicago- and $300 million statewide - by failing to claim federal earnedincome tax credits, officials said Tuesday.

Mayor Daley is joining with the business community on an outreachcampaign aimed at alerting Chicagoans who need it most to a tax breakthat could be worth as much as $3,800-a-year to a struggling family,retroactive to 1997.

Dominick's has agreed to put the alert on its grocery bags atChicago stores. The city has also asked Commonwealth Edison to put anotice in customer bills.

"It sounds like a no-brainer to me," said Pam Strobel, ComEd'sexecutive vice president and general counsel. "This is …