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The federal racketeering case against Ed Burke is pure Chicago.

The federal racketeering case against Ed Burke is pure Chicago. At its core, the Burke trial, which just wrapped its third week, is about a series of alleged shakedowns by the longest-serving alderman in City Council history — a potential highlight reel for the sordid legacy of City Hall. The former 14th Ward alderman is not accused of taking bribe money in an envelope, in a brown paper bag or ...

The federal racketeering case against Ed Burke is pure Chicago. At its core, the Burke trial, which just wrapped its third week, is about a series of alleged shakedowns by the longest-serving alderman in City Council history — a potential highlight reel for the sordid legacy of City Hall. The former 14th Ward alderman is not accused of taking bribe money in an envelope, in a brown paper bag or ...

Federal prosecutors are expected to begin presenting their witnesses to the jury Friday in the corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, a man they labeled in opening statements as a two-faced bribe-taker and extortionist. Among the first witnesses expected to take the stand is an expert who will give the jury a crash course on City Hall politics, including how wards are traditionally ...

CHICAGO — Jurors in the federal racketeering trial of ex-Ald. Edward Burke got a lengthy crash course in the intricacies of City Hall on Friday, a seminar that a prosecution expert labeled the “Schoolhouse Rock” of Chicago politics. As the first witness in the case, Elmhurst University political science professor Constance Mixon was tasked with bringing the jury, which includes many people ...

The historic corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke has ended with a guilty verdict. The son of a Democratic ward boss and alderman, Burke, 79, served more than 50 years on the City Council and allegedly ran the Finance Committee like his own personal fiefdom before his office was dramatically raided by the FBI in November 2018. Burke is charged with 14 counts, including ...

The historic corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke has been delayed at least a week after one of the defense lawyers tested positive for COVID-19 overnight, the judge said Thursday, delaying proceedings which already featured slower than expected jury selection. Opening statements had been expected to begin as soon as Thursday afternoon in the case against Burke, the former City ...

The historic corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke has been delayed at least a week after one of the defense lawyers tested positive for COVID-19 overnight, the judge said Thursday, delaying proceedings which already featured slower than expected jury selection. Opening statements had been expected to begin as soon as Thursday afternoon in the case against Burke, the former City ...

The landmark corruption trial of former Ald. Edward Burke has stretched into its third day of jury selection, a process that U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall said would not be complete until Thursday “unless something magical happens.” As of Wednesday afternoon, a total of 45 people had been questioned. At last count Tuesday evening, just 26 had made it through “for cause” strikes to the ...

CHICAGO — Nearly five years after he was first charged, ex-Chicago Ald. Edward Burke went on trial Monday in a high-stakes corruption case that will lay bare the inner workings of one of the city’s last Democratic machine politicians. Burke’s historic trial is the latest in a series of public corruption cases built by prosecutors that have fundamentally altered the Illinois political ...