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A who’s who of Illinois Democrats was gathered in Philadelphia in July 2016 for the party’s national convention, where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were vying for the chance to take on Donald Trump. Among the Chicago heavyweights in attendance that week was Ald. Daniel Solis, a staunch Clinton supporter who told the Tribune the excitement of potentially having the first woman in U.S. ...

Good morning, Chicago. A who’s who of Illinois Democrats was gathered in Philadelphia in July 2016 for the party’s national convention, where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were vying for the chance to take on Donald Trump. Among the Chicago heavyweights in attendance that week was Ald. Daniel Solis, a staunch Clinton supporter who told the Tribune the excitement of potentially having the ...

The former 25th Ward alderperson sold his political soul for small favors, then tried to reclaim it by wearing a wire on two of the biggest powerhouses in the history of Illinois politics.

A federal judge has ruled that former Ald. Edward Burke’s allegedly insensitive comments on wiretaps about Jewish lawyers can be heard by the jury at his upcoming corruption trial. Burke’s attorneys had argued vehemently to exclude statements the powerful ex-alderman made on the recordings about the Jewish heritage of the developer of the Old Post Office, whom Burke was allegedly pushing to ...

A federal judge has ruled that former Ald. Edward Burke’s allegedly insensitive comments on wiretaps about Jewish lawyers can be heard by the jury at his upcoming corruption trial. Burke’s attorneys had argued vehemently to exclude statements the powerful ex-alderman made on the recordings about the Jewish heritage of the developer of the Old Post Office, whom Burke was allegedly pushing to ...

CHICAGO — After a month of legal jockeying, lawyers for former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke confirmed in court Monday they will call alderman turned government mole Daniel Solis as a defense witness at Burke’s upcoming racketeering trial. The announcement by Burke’s high-powered defense team comes a month after prosecutors left Solis off their witness list, saying they planned to introduce dozens ...

CHICAGO — After a month of legal jockeying, lawyers for former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke confirmed in court Monday they will call alderman turned government mole Daniel Solis as a defense witness at Burke’s upcoming racketeering trial. The announcement by Burke’s high-powered defense team comes a month after prosecutors left Solis off their witness list, saying they planned to introduce dozens ...

(Undated-jm) – A consumer watchdog group is calling on the Illinois Commerce Commission to take a stand on the kinds of profits People’s Gas has been enjoying and not give the utility the...

He may be one of the important government moles in Chicago political history, but former Ald. Daniel Solis is not expected to take the witness stand for federal prosecutors at the upcoming racketeering trial of his old colleague, ex-Ald. Edward Burke. Prosecutors notified defense teams via a letter Wednesday about the tactical decision to keep Solis from testifying, meeting a deadline set by ...

The conviction of former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan’s longtime chief of staff on perjury charges last week exposed more than just the extraordinary set of lies that Tim Mapes told to try to protect his boss. The nearly three-week trial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse also ripped a deeper tear in the veil covering the secretive Madigan political machine that prosecutors have called ...