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Jeffrey Spyrka remains sedated and on a ventilator after the plunge of more than 125 feet, said his lawyer, who filed the suit for his client this week. His co-worker David O'Donnell was killed in the fall.
Burke, 80, Chicago's longest-serving City Council member, is two weeks away from his June 24 sentencing hearing. Burke's lawyers have asked the judge to give their client no prison time.
The Chicago Public Schools program aims to bolster teacher ranks amid a workforce shortage.
The four men spent a combined 73 years in prison after confessing as teenagers to a 1995 double murder they did not commit. Three of them later said police coerced their confessions; the fourth man said police fabricated his.