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Federal authorities subpoenaed Schiller Park for records about the $5,000-per-month lobbying contract the northwest suburb had with retired Chicago Ald. Michael Zalewski, the Better Government Association and WBEZ have found.
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they have turned over more than 40,000 pages and 100 discs of evidence in the corruption case against powerful Ald. Edward Burke — and they’re not done yet.
In a brief hearing before U.S. District Judge Robert Dow, attorneys for Burke and his two co-defendants asked for another three months to review the “voluminous” discovery before setting deadlines for pretrial motions and possibly a trial date.
Comment: “The enacted tax plan has a $100 million increase for local governments.” For a little context, that’s about three-tenths of one percent of what local governments collect in property taxes, so the answer is clearly No.
A special carve out for data centers is bad policy, Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Ryan Young.
The renewables industry knows who to use.
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