Chicago's Privatized Parking Meters Sour Airport Lease Deal

With the city's parking meter lease making voters leery of new privatization deals, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for too many public interest protections in the Midway Airport lease, and too few investors saw it as worth the risk. Increasingly, though, governments turn to private investors to run public assets like roads and prisons.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/09/30/225748243/chicago-s-privatized-parking-meters-sours-airport-lease-deal?ft=1&f=1006

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