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Then-Mayor Richard M. Daley “saw this as an opportunity to show a city that does work — not a city that crumbles under the pressure of protesters," said Leslie Fox, executive director of the 1996 convention's host committee. "The stakes were pretty high.”
The south suburb paid more than $200,000 to O.A.K.K. Construction Co., a Summit business whose president Alex Nitchoff awaits sentencing after pleading guilty in January to bribing a Cook County assessor's office employee for property tax breaks.
Morgan Stanley employees joined Kaboom staffers in creating a safe play space at the Mitzi Freidheim Child & Family Center. "Being able to wave to the kids and seeing the excitement on their faces has been just amazing," one volunteer said.
Hoffman Estates, ComEd and Compass Datacenters held a kickoff event to celebrate the redevelopment of Sears' former headquarters into a massive data center campus.