At Times, City Even Lobbies the City
(Chicago Sun Times) — Contractors, suppliers and other companies use clout-heavy lobbyists to do business with City Hall. Surprisingly, at times, so does Mayor Daley.
It’s not exactly the same, says Langdon Neal, a Chicago lawyer with deep political ties whose Neal & Leroy law firm charged the mayor’s Public Building Commission more than $400,000 last year to lobby City Hall for zoning changes and other land issues that needed to be dealt with to build schools, police stations, fire stations and libraries
