Page "Richard M. Daley" Paragraph 66

In 2003 an operating company included over 80 investors, including some of Mayor Daley's friends and neighbors won, under controversial circumstances, a lucrative contract to operate Park Grill, the only restaurant in Millenium Park.

In 2005 Daley criticized the deal, saying that the city wanted to renegotiate the pact.

The Chicago Sun-Times dubbed the Park Grill the " Clout Cafe " and included the contract award process in a year-end review of 2005 Daley administration scandals.

The contract was never renegotiated, and after Daley announced he would not seek a seventh term, the owners of the Park Grill sought to sell.