CHICAGO — Alderpeople learned Thursday that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration secretly offered about $3.3 billion last fall to reclaim control of the city’s parking meters — a whopping $800 million more than the next-highest bidder.
But the City Council members didn’t get those key details from the mayor, his aides or any other city officials.
Instead, one of the investors set to buy the rights to the meters blurted out those figures after a city lawyer refused…