Dieterich is looked at as a example by other small cities in Illinois as being very successful at economic
development, lets take a look at how they do it.

Dieterich is growing business, jobs, residents and housing while Newton is losing business, jobs, residents
and housing, a large part of the reason is that Dieterich has maintained itself as a low cost place to live and
operate a business while Newton has been on a spending binge and has became a very expensive place to
live or operate a business.

Some examples of the much lower cost of doing business in Dieterich.

Water: 6100 gallon as of 11/28/16
Dieterich $29.64
Newton $49.35
Newton 166% of Dieterich rate

Waste Water: 6100 gallon as of 11/28/16
Dieterich $16.70
Newton  $49.17
Newton 294% of Dieterich rate

Electric rate: 1500 KWH as of 11/28/16
Dieterich missing data for now
Newton $153.81

City Property taxes: as of payable in 2016
Dieterich $1.066 per $100 asessed
Newton   $2.286 per $100
Newton 214% of Dieterich rate

No wonder that Dieterich grew by 4.4% in the 2010 census while newton lost 7.1%.