The secret deal that former Chicago Ald. Danny Solis (25th) struck with federal prosecutors more than three years ago in a bid to avoid prison became a public document Tuesday, one day before he was set to be arraigned before a judge.
Solis signed the four-page deal, known as a deferred-prosecution agreement, on Dec. 26, 2018, after he’d already spent years gathering evidence that would become crucial to the racketeering indictments of Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th) and then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, two of the most powerful politicians in the state.
