In late July, a deadlocked selection committee put off a decision on who will run the $485,000-a-year independent budget office created last year to provide the Council with expert advice on mayoral spending, programs and privatization.
Brendan Shiller founded a lobbying company known as Lakeview Strategy Group with his mother. Helen Shiller has told the Chicago Sun-Times she no longer acts as a lobbyist on city issues.
The club now called VIP’s originally opened as a nightclub in August 1991, owned by James Levin, then the president of Tru-Link Fence. It did not offer nude dancing and wasn’t turning a profit either, court records show.