Daleys took Chicago for $30,000 ride on 11th and 18th streets
The Chicago Department of Transportation’s $1 million projects at 11th and 18th streets ended up costing $10 million. Then-mayor Richard M. Daley and the 11th Ward Democratic Party Campaign Committee controlled by his brother John collected more than $30,000 in campaign donations from contractors and their employees:
- 01/27/2003 – $1,500 from H.W. Lochner, Inc. (contractor) to Daley
- 01/27/2003 – $2,000 from Harry W. Lochner Jr. (president)
- 01/27/2003 – $2,000 from John Sandeen (senior vice president)
- 01/27/2003 – $2,000 from Larry Thomas (vice president)
- 01/27/2003 – $1,500 from Roy Bruce (engineer)
- 01/27/2003 – $1,500 from Jeannine Wirth (engineer)
- 01/27/2003 – $1,500 from Muller & Muller Ltd. (subcontractor)
- 01/27/2003 – $3,500 from Jay Muller of Muller & Muller Ltd.
- 01/27/2003 – $1,500 from D.B. Sterlin Consultants (subcontractor)
- 01/29/2003 – $500 from Sarah Pang (former Daley aide) of CNA Insurance (liability insurer)
- 02/14/2003 – Chicago Department of Transportation awards $1,225,000 contract for pedestrian underpass at 11th and Columbus Drive and reconstruction of 11th and 18th Street bridges over Metra to H.W. Lochner, Inc.
- 02/18/2003 – $4,500 from Sarah Pang of CNA Insurance
- 02/24/2003 – $1,500 to 11th Ward Democratic Party
- 02/24/2003 – $1,000 from Harry W. Lochner Jr.
- 02/25/2003 – Daley wins mayoral election with 78% of the vote
- 06/16/2003 – $528,993 contract amendment
- 06/26/2003 – $1,500 from Singh & Associates (subcontractor)
- 06/26/2003 – $1,000 from O’Brien & Associates (subcontractor)
- 09/02/2003 – $2,979,278 contract amendment
- 07/01/2004 – $1,039,039 contract amendment
- 11/19/2004 – $585,787.42 contract amendment
- 06/27/2005 – $686,705.01 contract amendment
- 09/26/2005 – $702,436.25 contract amendment
- 01/11/2007 – $899,987.97 contract amendment
- 02/09/2007 – $1,000 from Terrence Sullivan of Muller & Muller Ltd.
- 04/10/2007 – $798,415.71 contract amendment
- 04/13/2007 – $357,806.22 contract amendment
- 04/26/2007 – $1,500 to 11th Ward Democratic Party
- 11/26/2008 – $855,667.74 contract amendment
- 03/31/2009 – $1,500 to 11th Ward Democratic Party
- 04/29/2009 – $74,787.60 contract amendment
