Alderman Solis Can T Explain Missing Chunk Of 25Th Ward Money

• Chloe Riley
• Nick Marzullo, co-owner of the artists’ collective Pawn Works, wonders when it’s going to get paid for work on murals in Pilsen.

No one seems to know exactly where $140,000 in public funds has gone in the 25th Ward.

Solis apparently believed in the initiative enough to sink his own money into it—$20,000 in campaign funds, to be exact. But those funds were just supposed to get the ball rolling, according to the alderman’s spokeswoman Lauren Pacheco, who said back then that the alderman planned to use menu money and potentially tax increment financing (TIF) dollars to keep the new murals coming.

Until his company is paid, Marzullo said Pawn Works won’t put up any additional murals along 16th Street.