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Editor and reporter for Block Club Chicago. I'm often tracking politics, rooting for the Cubs & the Cats, and listening to Curtis or the Clash.
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Could The City Still Buy Back Control Of Its Parking Meters?

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By Mick Dumke Verified
| Block Club Chicago Verified
CITY HALL — If anyone knows what will happen next with Chicago’s parking meters, they’re not talking. That was the case again Monday, when the City Council’s finance committee delayed voting on a proposed sale of the city’s meter rights by one group of private investors to another. Ald. Pat Dowell (3rd) talks after a City Council meeting on June 17, 2026. Ald.
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Mayor Johnson’s Team Secretly Offered $3.3 Billion To Buy Back City’s Parking Meters, Other Bidder Says

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By Mick Dumke Verified
| Block Club Chicago Verified
CHICAGO — Alderpeople learned Thursday that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration secretly offered about $3.3 billion last fall to reclaim control of the city’s parking meters — a whopping $800,000 more than the next-highest bidder. But the City Council members didn’t get those key details from the mayor, his aides or any other city officials. Instead, one of the investors set to buy the rights to the meters blurted out those figures after a city lawyer refused.
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Why Is Mayor Johnson Keeping Secrets About The Parking Meter Deal?

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By Mick Dumke Verified
| Block Club Chicago Verified
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson ripped the parking meter deal again last week. “It’s the worst municipal deal in the history of municipalities,” he said at a media briefing. And, a few minutes later: “This is obviously, again, the worst deal ever.” Johnson is clearly with the people on this one. Chicagoans almost universally agree the 2008 meter privatization deal is a stinker, and any mayor who could nix it would go down in history as a hero.
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