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It's unclear whether Catholic figures appealing for leniency in letters to the judge affected the two-year sentence given to Burke. But priests, nuns and lay church leaders went to bat heavy for him — after years of the ex-alderman funneling campaign cash to Catholic causes.
Democratic leaders did not tell members to vote against an amendment to block the State Department from citing Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Pat Cleary, president of Chicago Fire Fighters Union Local 2, predicted “hundreds” of members would participate in the two-hour march on Michigan Avenue on July 6.
Prosecutors asked for a sentence of 15 years and said “anything less would fail to promote respect for the rule of law.”