Biggest contributor giving mayor, wife a lift to Miami
He's giving the mayor a plane ride to the Super Bowl.
The mayor's office disclosed Thursday that Daley and his wife, Maggie, will fly to Miami on Saturday night with Malkin and the Malkin family on the developer's private plane.
The Daleys are expected to stay in an undisclosed hotel paid for by the mayor's campaign fund, and go to the game with tickets purchased by the mayor's son-in-law, Sean Conroy. It was not known how Conroy got the tickets or how much he paid for them.
Conroy will not be flying on the Malkins' private plane. He is expected to meet the Daleys in Miami. It was not known whether Nora Daley, the mayor's daughter, would be joining her husband in Miami.
Malkin, who could not be reached for comment, and Neil Bluhm are co-founders of JMB Realty, former owner of the vacant North Loop parcel known as Block 37. Fed up with years of inaction on a parcel that may someday be a downtown showpiece, the city bought it back from the developers in 2001.
That episode obviously didn't sour Malkin on Daley. His $200,000 contribution helped the mayor raise $4.8 million in the last three months -- $1.3 million of it from 11 heavy hitters who kicked in more than $100,000 apiece.