The parking meter deal lives on. The City Council’s finance committee voted Thursday to sign off on the sale of Chicago’s parking meter rights from one group of private investors to another, setting up a likely approval by the full council as soon as Frid... See more
I was surprised to get an email recently from the FOIA office within Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Usually our relationship is one-sided: I write the agency asking for records under the Freedom of Information Act ; no one responds; I follow up; I w... See more
CITY HALL — If anyone knows what will happen next with Chicago’s parking meters, they’re not talking. That was the case again Monday, when the City Council’s finance committee delayed voting on a proposed sale of the city’s meter rights from one group of ... See more
CHICAGO — Alderpeople learned Thursday that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration secretly offered about $3.3 billion last fall to reclaim control of the city’s parking meters — a whopping $800,000 more than the next-highest bidder. But the City Council ... See more
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson ripped the parking meter deal again last week. “It’s the worst municipal deal in the history of municipalities,” he said at a media briefing. And, a few minutes later: “This is obviously, again, the worst deal ever.” Johnso... See more
