Ed Vrdolyak once was one of the most powerful people in Chicago. Along with Ald. Burke and a few others, Fast Eddie led the majority of Chicago aldermen in tying up everything Harold Washington wanted to do in his first term as mayor, irate that the voters had picked someone other than them to run the city. Voters returned Washington for a second term, and gave him enough like-minded members of City Council to be able to govern, though sadly he died before completing it. Chicago quickly returned to being a Daley family fiefdom (albeit with some changes from King Richard I's reign). In any event, the following sentence will evoke feelings of schadenfreude among many Chicagoans: "Former Chicago alderman and power broker Edward Vrdolyak pleaded guilty this morning to a kickback scheme involving the sale of a medical school building."
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