Chicago Sun-Times: City puts heat on clout-heavy cafe

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-grill11.html

"The Chicago Park District awarded a 20-year lease to run the swanky restaurant at Millennium Park to a businessman who got a top Park District official pregnant during negotiations, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

What's more, the businessman, Matthew A. O'Malley, lined up a host of investors for the Park Grill that included some of Mayor Daley's friends and neighbors.

On Thursday, after inquiries by the Sun-Times, the Daley administration announced it would force the key players at Park Grill to renegotiate their deal with the Park District.

"They've been essentially told that you must change the terms of this contract or there's a serious chance they can lose that," said Daley spokeswoman Jacquelyn Heard."

Ah corruption.

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1. those leases

my daughter has worked for a few of those public place/private business joints. strangely, they are always full of wiseguys.