Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration plans to buy and rehabilitate Chicago’s downtown bus station , a Johnson spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.

Johnson’s team champions the plan to take over and fix up the terminal as a needed bid to save the low-cost transportation method’s viability in the city. But the $50 million move came as a surprise to Ald. Bill Conway, whose ward includes the location.

“I think that trying to do it in the dead of night shows, really shows the lack of collaboration that this administration continues to show,” Conway said.

Conway, 34th, said he first learned of the planned purchase Monday while reviewing a list of planned tax increment financing expenditures for his ward.

According to the report he showed the Tribune at City Hall Wednesday evening, Johnson’s

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