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Article: City's clout leases
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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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.
One of those landlords has been in the public spotlight of late -- Mayor Daley's nephew Robert Vanecko. His real estate investment firm used city pension money to buy a Southwest Side warehouse that the city leases to park dump trucks, the Sun-Times has reported.
In all, the city's Department of General Services says it has 75 leases for properties the city uses for such things as libraries, offices, warehouses and clinics.
But the list -- provided by the mayor's staff in response to a ...