After conviction, ex-Ald. Ed Burke gets pension bump; former Speaker Mike Madigan now in line for hike before new trial date
Only days after being convicted in a sweeping federal corruption case, former Ald. Ed Burke began the new year by collecting a bigger pension check courtesy of an automatic hike that former House Speaker Michael Madigan is also all but guaranteed to get now that his own corruption trial was recently postponed until fall. Burke, Chicago’s longest-serving alderman, stands to collect nearly ...