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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

The one that got away? Burke comes up empty after yearslong pursuit of the ‘tuna,’ jurors hear

Ald. Ed Burke (14th) speaks during a City Council meeting last year. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file)

Longtime Ald. Ed Burke spent two years trying to “land the tuna” by signing the developer of the city’s massive Old Post Office as a client for his private law firm.

But for all the complaining and alleged cajoling through then-Ald. Danny Solis, an agent for that developer told a federal jury Friday exactly how much it wound up paying Burke’s firm: 

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