Article: Court told jobs built patronage battalion: Witness says he led `white ethnic' group.

Byline: Dan Mihalopoulos and Rudolph Bush

Jun. 1--By dangling the promise of public jobs and promotions, a high-ranking city official recruited a "white ethnic" patronage army of almost 300 campaign workers controlled by Mayor Richard Daley's office, according to testimony Wednesday in the City Hall corruption trial.

Daniel Katalinic, a former top official in the city's Streets and Sanitation Department, described how his political group of city employees crisscrossed the Chicago area for the mayor, U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) and pro-Daley candidates in suburban state legislative races.

Testifying against former Daley aide Robert Sorich, ...

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