Steve Chapman reports:
When the Tribune-owned Chicago Cubs wanted permission to install lights at Wrigley Field, Ald. Ed Vrdolyak let it be known it would require an end to editorial criticism of him. An editorial responded that the Cubs would "be playing morning games on a sandlot in Gary first." Vrdolyak -- this will surprise you -- is now headed for prison, another victim of Fitzgerald.
Former Alderman Vrdolyak, recently,plead guilty in the Operation Board Games
investigation.Here's more on
Vrdolyak:
More than just the Town Attorney, Vrdolyak has been involved in Cicero since December 1992, when sources claimed friends of mobster Ernest Rocco Infelise intervened to help elect Betty Maltese, the wife of ailing Town Assessor and convicted mob racketeer Frank J. “Baldy” Maltese, to win election as Town President.
Betty Maltese lied to her political allies and aides, claiming she would reform Cicero Government and distance the town from the illegal practices of her husband, who died six months after her election in April 1993.
Vrdolyak swore Betty Maltese in as president after both her elections in April 1993 and April 1997 and is named the “godfather” of a baby girl Betty adopted in the days immediately following her re-election.
Vrdolyak went to visit
this "high ranking made member" of The Chicago Mob before his death.
