It was generally believed that the meetings were a legal formality. Real decisions were likely made at the breakfast meetings of Mayor Daley and Chancellor Stukel, of the university, and influenced by their personal preferences and political ambitions. Their lack of firm information about what was happening, or likely to happen, jeopardized, and continues to affect, their planning and decision making, but most of them agree now that removal of the market has adversely affected their businesses. There were also anti-market neighborhood groups who concurred with the gentrification plans of real estate developers. They contacted professionals, and certain key individuals were brought in to leadership positions if they shared areas of interest.
City administrators are less forthright.
This response is understandable since some who were sympathetic to the market were demoted or moved laterally out of influential positions. I don't want to go back and look at that issue. Perhaps this is because her development corporation may depend on the city for funds. Another administrator who was pro-market, was demoted, then saw the light, and was finally restored to a position of authority. Mayor Daley has a managerial approach to city government, and his distaste for the untidiness of the market was well known.