Corrections

Chicago sold its parking meters again, 46 to 3, and drivers pay until 2084

Before the vote, the sellers’ lawyer warned that turning the deal down could mean “financial catastrophe for the city.”

The lawyer is Dan Webb, and the story names him. The only words of his letter we can show are “financial catastrophe.” We printed three more words inside the quotation marks than the public record supports.

Chicago Sun-Times, 22 September 2026 @Suntimes. Block Club Chicago, 24 June 2026 @BlockClubCHI. Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026 @chicagotribune. All three put only the words “financial catastrophe” inside quotation marks.

The Record and The Carry

Force as the collection department was first run at Detroit in 1712, and it was the oldest play in The Record.

It was run here in September 1680, when the great Illinois village near Starved Rock was attacked and its people driven west of the Mississippi. It was run on the Wendat in 1649 before that. The Carry now says 1680. The Fort Orange chapter carries the rest.

The Record, a correction to a correction

Our own 15 September correction said the 1833 town had a charter and sat on ground not yet bought.

The town had trustees, not a charter. The charter came in 1837. The town site itself had been ceded earlier.

The South Works story, first printed 13 September under the headline “The ground doubled”

Blue Owl Capital bought pieces of the old South Works for about $29 million and passed control to Related Midwest and CRG for about $58 million.

Blue Owl paid U.S. Steel about $75 million. Related Midwest and CRG paid about $58 million, and reporting indicates that figure is the 99-year ground lease, not a purchase. Related bought a little over $3 million of land direct. More money went in than came back out. The ground did not double, and the headline came down.

The story now runs as two pieces, the tax rate and the ground lease. The referendum line was fixed the same day. It drew 330 signatures, and the Board of Elections threw it out on 13 January 2026 on form. No signature was challenged. These were fixed on the page that day without a note. They are logged here now.

Cook County property records. The Real Deal, 29 September 2025. Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm that represented Blue Owl, describes the deal as an acquisition, joint venture and ground lease.

The Record, one, the town came before the treaty

Chicago incorporated as a town the year after the treaty, with about 350 people in it.

The Town of Chicago was organized on 12 August 1833. The Treaty of Chicago was signed on 26 September 1833. The town came first, by about six weeks. The city charter came on 4 March 1837.

The Record, two, the removal clock

They were given three years to leave.

The Illinois land was due on ratification. The country north of the Illinois state line was the part held for three years.

The Record, three, the creditors

Creditor claims came to about $175,000 out of a package of roughly a million dollars.

The $175,000 is the total of the claims scheduled in the treaty. The treaty also budgeted $150,000 to pay the claims the nations admitted. Both numbers print.

The Record, four, a hundred and eighty-nine years

The Record says the Miami-Illinois word for wild onion has been on this city’s letterhead for a hundred and eighty-nine years. That counts from the city charter in 1837. Counted from the town in 1833 it would be a hundred and ninety-three.

The Record, five, the day the council sat

Talks were to open on the twelfth, and the council did not sit until the fourteenth.

The negotiations ran roughly from the tenth of September to the seventh of October, 1833. The fourteenth rests on a single eyewitness account. The line reads mid-September and nothing narrower.