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Daley-Ryan Alliance May Be In Final Days

CHICAGO-The alliance between Democratic Mayor Richard M. Daley and Republican Governor George Ryan has produced city-state incentive packages to spur major industrial redevelopment projects, particularly on the Southeast Side.

By Mark Ruda | Updated on July 23, 2001

CHICAGO-Anyone outside the market might wonder why a Democratic mayor would speak glowingly of a Republican governor, practically endorsing him for re-election in 2002. But the bipartisan alliance between Mayor Richard M. Daley and Governor George Ryan has yielded millions of investment dollars in a city that previously fought for meager state support.

Two developments on the Southeast Side are cases in point. The city and state teamed up on the Ford Supplier Park at 126th Street and Torrence Avenue, with Ryan ponying up $40 million in Illinois First money to help stop the project from landing in Atlanta. To help redevelop a former USX steel mill site to keep Solo Cup from moving across the nearby state line to Hammond, IN, Illinois First is paying the bill for $86 million in infrastructure improvements.

“Up until two years ago, if the state put in $3 million in the city, that was a lot,” says Grubb & Ellis senior vice president Christopher R. Hill, Daley’s planning and development commissioner until January.

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