The Murder Chicago Didn't Want to Solve.

As recently as Feb. 27 - the day before Lewis was killed - the FBI and the Police Department's organized crime division shared a tip that Lenny Patrick was running a horse race betting operation out of the Lawndale Restaurant, just down the street from Lewis' ward office. Patrick had sent a Chicago police officer to kill Lewis, according to Longoria - and it was the same officer who had allegedly helped carry out the Dorfman hit. That evening, Lewis ran into a friend from childhood, police officer Eugene Belton, who joked about leaving the force to work as Lewis' bodyguard. In 40 pages of FBI reports on Lewis and more than 900 pages on Patrick that I obtained through open records requests, nothing suggests Lewis was an informant. [Extracted from the article]