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Mayor Asks Chicago Businesses to Raise $1million for City Gun Buyback
17 July 2008
Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Daley wants to raise $1 million to buy back guns and remove them from Chicago streets, but the latest in a string of corporate fund-raisers got off to a slow start.
Sources said former Board of Education President Michael Scott was asked to co-sign a wave of fund-raising letters and make fund-raising phone calls after the initial response was lukewarm from a business community that's also being called upon to bankroll Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid.
Scott's calls... (GunPolicy.org)