The ultimate mensch—the ex–Wall Street whiz takes a salary of just $1—is City Hall’s go-to number cruncher behind the city’s biggest deals, from the United Center’s $400 million West Side expansion to doling out TIF funding for the new DePaul arena and a Marriott hotel near McCormick Place.
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