Good afternoon, Chicago.
Jurors in ex-Ald. Ed Burke’s federal corruption trial finally heard today, in Burke’s own voice, a phrase already infamous in Chicago political history:
“So did we land the, uh, the tuna?”
The “tuna” was tax business from developers of the massive Old Post Office — business that Burke had been chasing for months. In conversation after wiretapped conversation, Burke made it clear to FBI mole Ald. Daniel Solis that he wasn’t inclined to pull any strings for the developers until they agreed to be clients of Burke’s private law firm.
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![A Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant for an Aurora man in connection with the killing of Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca, according to court records. Xavier Tate Jr. was named in a first-degree murder warrant that ordered authorities to detain him, according to documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court Friday. A felony complaint accuses him of firing a .40 caliber handgun at Huesca, killing him. Huesca, 30 and a six-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, was in Gage Park when he was shot multiple times on the 3100 block of West 56th Street while off-duty but […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CTC-L-CPD-luis-huesca-01_187858445_de8a4b.jpg?w=620 "A Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant for an Aurora man in connection with the killing of Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca, according to court records. Xavier Tate Jr. was named in a first-degree murder warrant that ordered authorities to detain him, according to documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court Friday. A felony complaint accuses him of firing a .40 caliber handgun at Huesca, killing him. Huesca, 30 and a six-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, was in Gage Park when he was shot multiple times on the 3100 block of West 56th Street while off-duty but […]")
