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Federal prosecutors are seeking to call a pair of former Chicago aldermen as experts in the city’s political landscape at the racketeering trial of former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to call a pair of former Chicago aldermen as experts in the city’s political landscape at the upcoming racketeering trial of former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan. In a motion Thursday, prosecutors asked that retired University of Illinois at Chicago professor Dick Simpson be allowed to testify as an expert witness on traditional Democratic machine ...
About 800 New Mexico music fans and musicians gathered at the Ohkay Owingeh Hotel Casino in Española last Saturday (Jan. 13) to celebrate the state's unique traditional music genre at
CHICAGO — Generations of Chicagoans accustomed to grimy politics might view former Ald. Ed Burke’s federal racketeering conviction last week as just another case in a long conga line of crooked aldermen. But Burke was an undisputed Democratic kingpin. He not only set a record for serving 54 years in the City Council, but he departed in May as the last alderman who rose to power in the era of ...
