City Council today passed two ordinances introduced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Alderman Gregory I. Mitchell, Alderman Patrick D. Thompson and the Department of Procurement Services (DPS), one to expand the bid preference offered to City-based businesses that employ Chicago residents and one to expand the City’s Mentor-Protégé program that rewards prime contractors who actively mentor Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women-owned Business Enterprises (WBE).

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