With FBI agents secretly listening in, then-Chicago Ald. Danny Solis was caught on a wiretap four years ago discussing plans to solicit campaign money from a development group whose owners include Chicago sports mogul Jerry Reinsdorf, chairman of the Bulls and White Sox, that needed his help at City Hall.
Michigan Avenue Real Estate Group needed Solis’ approval for a $40 million apartment complex they later built in the alderman’s 25th ward on the site of Carmichael’s steakhouse about a mile east of the United Center, the Bulls’ home.
And Solis wanted money for his campaign fund.