Reputed drug kingpin Operated in Powerful Chicago Alderman Burke's World

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

To one of Chicago’s most powerful politicians, Saul Rodriguez was just another young real-estate developer.

Rodriguez, then only 24, wanted to build five condominium buildings in Ald. Ed Burke’s 14th Ward in 1999. So he hired William Barbaro Construction, whose owner, William Barbaro, was a regular contributor to the campaign funds of Burke and then-Ald. William Banks (36th), head of the City Council’s zoning committee at the time.

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