Trump Jr. makes quick trip to City Hall to talk about Trump Tower

Donald Trump Jr. and his security entourage breezed in and out of City Hall Thursday for a meeting with downtown Ald. Brendan Reilly about long-vacant commercial space at the base of the riverfront tower that bears the family name.

Trump Jr. hustled out of the meeting, down the stairs and into a waiting black Jeep Grand Cherokee without responding to reporters who shouted questions at him. That left Reilly to talk about the purpose of the meeting.

It was to talk about changes to the tower's pricey 16th-floor restaurant and establish "ground rules" for marketing the building's "untenanted commercial space" along the river.

"They're hoping that the uses they bring to the river are ones that I'll support. They're not moving quickly. They're currently marketing the space and they want to make sure, as they're marketing, they're not over-promising," Reilly said.

Reilly was asked whether the meeting might have been an opportunity to persuade Trump Jr. to reduce the size of the massive "TRUMP" sign that Reilly and Mayor Rahm Emanuel considered so garish and tasteless, they moved to rein in future signs along the river.

"I'd love to try and get that sign a lot smaller. We could always talk about that. But right now, it's really just talking about tenanting the space," the alderman said.

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