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Politically Connected Tollway Employee’s Last Job? Selling Office Furniture in 2001

ICPR Board Chair was quoted in this article.

Via – The Daily Herald

“A politically connected Illinois tollway employee hired last year for an important $80,016 engineering department job last worked in 2001 as an account executive selling office furniture.

Laura Durkin is the agency’s general manager of engineering and sister-in-law to Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin of Western Springs. Tollway officials recently released Laura Durkin’s resume to the Daily Herald after withholding it for weeks.

She was hired in spring 2017 for the job overseeing multiple engineering, architectural and construction contracts. The position requires a minimum of five years’ management experience administering construction contracts, according to the tollway’s job description.”

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