Patrick Levar
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Patrick Levar is alderman of the 45th ward of the City of Chicago. He sits on the Chicago City Council.
[edit] Early life
Levar is a graduate of St. Patrick’s High School 1969 and Northeastern Illinois University. Before becoming Alderman Levar worked for the Clerk of the Circuit Court at traffic court 321 N LaSalle.
Levar, who is white, was one of nine hard-core opponents to Mayor Harold Washington, who was black.[1]
Levar controls three political action committees: Citizens to Re-elect Patrick J Levar, Patrick J Levar 45th Ward Committeeman Fund, and Patrick J Levar 45th Ward Committeeman Fund.[2]
Alderman Levar is Chairman of the Committee on Aviation of the Chicago City Council. Levar has been chairman of the Aviation Committee since the early 1990s, while his brother Michael was a top city official in charge of O'Hare International Airport construction contracts until Michael retired from his city job in 2004. Michael Levar is a focus of a massive investigation of city aviation deals looking into possible women- and minority-owned business fraud and into campaign contributions from airport contractors to Alderman Levar.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Fremon, David (1988). Chicago Politics Ward by Ward. Indiana University Press. p. 301. ISBN 0253313449.
- ^ Illinois State Board of Elections. "Campaign Disclosure". http://www.elections.state.il.us/CampaignDisclosure/Welcome.aspx. Retrieved on 2009-02-23.
- ^ Novak, Tim; Fusco, Chris; Marin, Carol (2009-02-23). "Alderman's brother in O'Hare probe". Chicago Sun-Times. http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/1444477,CST-NWS-watchdog23.article. Retrieved on 2009-02-23.
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