{"id":377635,"date":"2010-03-01T17:27:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a8e84f3a970b"},"modified":"2010-03-01T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:27:28","slug":"childrens-museum-must-reveal-lobbyists-in-tax-filings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/377635","title":{"rendered":"Children’s museum must reveal lobbyists in tax filings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 4:28 p.m.<\/p>\n

Chicago Children\u2019s Museum officials said they plan to amend the museum\u2019s federal tax filings to reveal its City Council lobbyists and how much they were paid in recent years after the Tribune asked why it had failed to do so.<\/p>\n

According to council members, several professionals were hired to lobby aldermen \u2014 who in June 2008 sided with Mayor Richard Daley and approved a controversial plan to build a museum in Grant Park.<\/p>\n

But those lobbyists weren\u2019t disclosed, as required, on the museum\u2019s Internal Revenue Service reports for a two-year period ending June 30, 2008, according to recent not-for-profit filings at the Illinois attorney general\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an administrative error, and we are currently amending those tax returns,\u201d said museum spokesman Natalie Kreiger.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Aldermen said zoning attorneys, public relations specialists and even a pollster worked to sway the council on the move. Some argued the\u00a0new site\u00a0would\u00a0violate a long-standing prohibition on building in the lakefront park.<\/p>\n

Kreiger said she did not immediately know who the lobbyists were or how much they had been paid. \u201cThat will all be detailed in the amendments to the 2008 returns and the 2007 returns,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In September 2007, Daley\u2019s nephew, Patrick Thompson, withdrew as an attorney for the museum after a Chicago Sun-Times report noted he had yet to file as a lobbyist for the museum. At the time, Daley had just come out in support of the museum\u2019s proposal to move from Navy Pier to Daley Bicentennial Plaza at the North End of the city\u2019s most prominent public space.<\/p>\n

The museum has yet to start the move, which faces legal challenges and has yet to be fully funded. Officials at the facility, meanwhile, have been discussing a short-term lease extension at the pier.<\/p>\n

See the Chicago Children’s Museum’s tax returns for July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007 here<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0museum’s tax returns for July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008 are here<\/a>.
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