Are you in a suburb north of Chicago? I remember working there, Winetka, Willmette, Glencoe, I can't remember which one, and they had local power from the town instead of Com Ed like Chicago and everywhere else. There was a huge fine if you tampered with the meter. In Chicago we did whatever we wanted, Com Ed never seemed to mind. One time though, we had to wait for them to come and remove a bunch of locks on a real old 6 gang meter base/fuse box in a basement. We were going to sawzall it apart live if they didn't show up.
