Michael Tadin Jr

Eligible residents must file a claim in January for money from the court settlement.

A campaign aide calls it an “oversight” and says $46,500 is being returned, agreeing that the ethics rule is “a sound and necessary policy to ensure a fair government.”

The city won’t determine next steps in the proposed teardown of the Southwest Side structures until the Army Corps of Engineers does its own assessment.

Dozens of residents voiced concerns about the planned destruction of the massive Southwest Side structures along the river.

The new owner of the more than century-old grain silos wants to tear them down and redevelop the Southwest Side riverfront land.

Michael Tadin Jr. and his family bought the silos from the state for $6.5 million in December.

The properties range from early State Street skyscrapers to less-prominent commercial and industrial buildings in the neighborhoods.

Bidding is again open for city work to provide materials that fill potholes and repair streets.

Community groups, preservationists and environmentalists had asked Pritzker to halt the sale and requested that the city intervene.

The Damen silos beg for conversation on how they could be reused in a higher, better and more public way.