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Article: Burke tried to cut Rezko's taxes; He voted on deal involving client
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 4, 2007
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Why did Ald. Edward M. Burke vote to approve Tony Rezko's plans
to develop the South Loop's biggest piece of vacant land even as he
was working for Rezko on that same deal?
Burke says: I forgot to abstain.
The much-conflicted alderman says he meant to sit out the vote.
He'd even sent a letter to the Chicago Board of Ethics in August
2003 saying he would abstain from any Council votes on Rezko's plan
to put as many as 5,000 homes and stores on a 62-acre site along the
Chicago River at Roosevelt Road.
But then Rezko's project came before the City Council on March
31, 2004, and Burke cast his vote -- in favor.
"An error occurred," the alderman said in a written response to
questions, ...