Tinley Park awards no-bid projects to political insider

Every year, Tinley Park officials spend tens of thousands of dollars printing three newsletters that tout the town’s virtues.In a recent edition of the Tinley Park Exchange, Mayor Ed Zabrocki lauded the village’s “conservative financial management” and boasted of cost-cutting measures during the recession.

But a Tribune analysis of Tinley Park’s expenses for the newsletter and other printing shows the village has awarded no-bid projects to a political insider’s company, and experts question the transparency of those deals.

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