Doing Business With Oak Lawn ‘Worse Than Cicero,’ Says Low-Bidder

Roofing contractor gets taste of doing business with the Village of Oak Lawn after his bid is rejected in favor of higher bidding company with ties to to Oak Lawn trustee.

With its reputation for bare-fisted politics mounting, Oak Lawn has earned another distinction: the village is now worse to do business with than Cicero. A Des Plaines roofing contractor says he never saw the punch coming when his recent low bid to replace the leaking roof at the public works facility was rejected in favor of a higher bidder with family ties to a village trustee. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. “Oak Lawn is very political, more so than others, and I’ve dealt with Cicero,” said Dominic Dunlap, owner of DCG Roofing Solutions. Although technically never in the running because he did not include a start date in his bid package, the Oak Lawn Village Board voted 4-3 to reward the contract to …

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