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2. Hired Truck Program - Wikipedia

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   The Hired Truck Program was a scandal-plagued program in the city of Chicago that involved hiring private trucks to do city work. It was overhauled in 2004 (and phased out beginning in 2005) after an investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times revealed that some participating companies were being paid for doing little or no work, had mob connections, or were tied to city employees.

3. Chicago Department of Fleet and Facility Management

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   1,063. Annual budget. $330 million. Agency executive. David Reynolds, Commissioner. Website. www.cityofchicago.org. The City of Chicago Department of Fleet and Facility Management (DFM) was established by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1991 as the Department of Fleet Management. It is codified at Section 2-38 of the Municipal Code of Chicago.

4. Union Stock Yards - Wikipedia

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   Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...

5. Economy of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Manufacturing, printing, publishing, insurance, transportation, financial trading and services, and food processing also play major roles in the city's economy. The total economic output of Chicago in gross metropolitan product totaled US$770.7 billion in 2020, [1][2] surpassing the total economic output of Switzerland and making Chicago's ...

6. Chicago Department of Transportation - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT / ˈsiːdɒt /) is an executive department of the City of Chicago [3] responsible for the safety, environmental sustainability, maintenance, and aesthetics of the surface transportation networks and public ways within the city. [4] This includes the planning, design, construction, and management of ...

7. Chicago Transit Authority - Wikipedia

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   Website. transitchicago.com. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 279,146,200, or about 977,000 per weekday as of the second quarter of 2024.