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The city of Chicago spends more than $22 million a year leasing property, usually from clout-heavy landlords and often at higher rents than other tenants pay, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.
City spends $22MIL on rent – think clout, mismanagement involved?
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When you understand the role which these City of Chicago landlords played in local Democratic Party Cook County political fund-raising, you will understand the dynamic shared with the Chicago Sun Times Hired Trucker exposé.
Follow the money as they said during the Watergate scandal.
Here's an index for the Hired Truck reporting, you know, if you have a few spare hours to read some background reporting: http://www.suntimes.com/news/hired/index.html
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