Out of Chicago:

City Hall officials ordered the city’s top water boss, Donald Tomczak, to marshal his political army of city workers for Mayor Daley, Congressman Rahm Emanuel and other politicians, according to a federal court document released Monday and other sources.
The latest details to emerge from the federal investigation of the city’s Hired Truck Program came as a top aide to Tomczak, Gerald Wesolowski Jr., pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to racketeering conspiracy.
Wesolowski admitted taking nearly $200,000 in bribes from trucking firms and passing the money to Tomczak, who ensured the companies got work in the Hired Truck Program. Wesolowski was Tomczak’s top bagman among several, court documents show….