A Chicago janitorial company headed by clout-heavy businessman Rick Simon is suing City Hall in an effort to hold onto a deal at O’Hare Airport under which it’s been paid almost $200 million over nearly a decade.

Simon’s United Maintenance Company Inc. says Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration is violating city and state procurement and contract bidding procedures.

The suit, filed Oct. 8, says City Hall plans to give half of the work at O’Hare that Simon’s company has been doing to ABM Industries, Inc., one of the nation’s largest janitorial businesses, which has faced a series of lawsuits filed by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accusing ABM of failing to protect female workers from sexual violence ..

More at source: Chicago Sun Times

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