Gery Chico, a longtime player in Chicago politics, had powerful Ald. Edward M. Burke on the phone back in June 2017, hours before Chico planned to host a fundraiser for Burke at a friend’s new office.
Chico told Burke he expected “a nice turnout.” But he warned that Bulley & Andrews Construction, which had been involved in the building of Mansueto High School in Burke’s 14th Ward, was “pretty naive.”
