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- Alderman Danny Solis still can’t explain where $140,000 for arts and culture projects disappeared to.
If you find the $140,000 missing from the 25th Ward, please let Alderman Solis’s office know.
In 2013, the ward contracted the artist collective Pawn Works to recruit muralists for the ward’s Art in Public Places initiative. By the end of that year, the group was still owed $16,000 of the $30,000 it was promised.
According to Bowen, a different Pilsen-based nonprofit was initially responsible for managing the artist payments, but was dropped by the ward office after the corporation’s executive director recently stepped down. That nonprofit’s former executive director said, to his knowledge, his group was never involved with aiding the ward on those artist payments.
A snafu that needs a much better explanation.
