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As prospective jurors walked into the courtroom for the second day of former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke’s federal trial on Tuesday, there was a change to the...
Once Chicago’s most powerful alderman, Ed Burke walked into court Monday to face federal charges in the city’s highest profile public corruption trial in...
Corruption trial set to begin for former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke
He served in the City Council for 54 years, and during most of that historic tenure was considered the most powerful alderman in Chicago.
Ed Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a home steeped in Chicago’s particular street-level realpolitik: Smooth over potholes, fix up friends with patronage jobs, and make sure everyone who benefited knew how to vote — and for whom to vote. At its zenith during Mayor Richard J. Daley’s era, Chicago’s political ...