LOWERCASECHICAGO — A Chicago homeless agency has fired Illinois’ first lady from her $100,000-a-year job as its chief fundraiser.
The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday on their Web sites that the Chicago Christian Industrial League exercised a termination clause of Patti Blagojevich’s (bluh-GOY’-a-vich) contract Tuesday.
Interim Executive Director Mary Shaver told the papers she can’t discuss personnel issues.
The organization hired Blagojevich last year. Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested in December in a federal fraud and bribery case.
Patti Blagojevich isn’t accused of wrongdoing. But prosecutors say a recorded telephone call captured her expletive-laced suggestion to “just fire” newspaper editors if the Tribune Co.
wanted state assistance to sell Wrigley Field.
