The New York developer that resurrected Chicago’s abandoned main post office now finds itself in the middle of two blockbuster political corruption cases.
Three years ago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported the developer, 601W Companies, was cooperating in the federal investigation of Ald. Edward M. Burke, who authorities later said had bullied the company to hire his law firm to lower the property taxes on what’s been branded the Old Post Office, which straddles the Eisenhower Expressway downtown.
