City to pay $22.5 million to bipolar woman released in high-crime area
EXCLUSIVE: Chicago taxpayers will spend $22.5 million to compensate a mentally ill California woman who was arrested and held overnight, then released in a high-crime neighborhood, where she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted before falling from a seventh-floor window of a CHA high-rise.
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Hidden investors in controversial city janitorial contract
The head of a janitorial company didn’t disclose that he had sold a major stake in the business during the time it pursued and landed a city contract worth almost $100 million, even though the city requires bidders to provide “current” ownership information.
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