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Article: Daley tells Tribune Co. to prove it Mayor wants Cubs owner to show bills for Wrigley Field repairs
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 11, 2004
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Mayor Daley demanded Tuesday that the Tribune Co. produce the
bills to prove that it spent millions of dollars to repair
potentially hazardous pedestrian and bleacher ramps at 90-year-old
Wrigley Field without the required building permits.
"If they did it, they can show the bills," Daley said. "You would
expect it when terra cotta falls off a building. When a window goes
out in a building, you expect that. When scaffolding falls, you
expect that. . . . We expect them [the Tribune Co.] to do the same
thing."
While one influential alderman has accused the Tribune of lying
about doing the work, Daley refused to go that far.
" 'Mayor Doubts the Tribune.' That's the headline you want and
I'll ...