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Chicago Alderman Ed Burke Sentenced To Two Years In Prison

Former Chicago City Council member Ed Burke sentenced to 2 years in prison for corruption charges. Case highlights consequences of public corruption and ac...

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Longest-serving Chicago City Council member gets 2 years in prison for corruption

The longest-serving City Council member in Chicago history has been sentenced to two years in prison for corruption

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Bartender Backs Up Justin Timberlake’s Claim That He Only Had “One Martini” Before DWI Arrest in the Hamptons

“If he was drinking more, it wasn’t here.”

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Mayor Johnson will ask City Council committee to repeal video gambling in Chicago

Brandon Johnson wants the City Council’s Committee on Workforce Development to meet Monday to consider an ordinance that would essentially reverse the Council's decision to allow video gambling in the city.

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Ed Burke still in line for hefty payouts from pension, campaign funds after corruption conviction

The Chicago City Council icon turned felon is entitled to more than $540,000 he paid into a city pension fund and a nearly $2.5 million payout from his campaign fund.

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New arrivals and a new mayor grabbed city headlines while old political figureheads went down and long-standing conflicts flared up. The Sun-Times was there for it all.

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Ed Burke and City Council members who call his conviction ‘a tragedy’ suck the life out of Chicago

What’s sad is that corruption continues to be so normalized in this town, an Irving Park resident writes.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson, city leaders react to Ed Burke guilty verdict in corruption case

Former and current elected officials comment on the conviction of the longest-serving, once-powerful dean of the Chicago City Council. ‘The tyranny of Ed Burke is over,’ former Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.

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Longtime Chicago Alderman Ed Burke found guilty of corruption

A federal jury has convicted former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke on 13 counts of corruption alleging he used his power to win private law business from developers

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Ed Burke’s unwelcome birthday present

The disgraced — and now guilty — former member of the Chicago City Council enters his eighth decade as a convicted felon.

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Current, former City Council colleagues call Burke conviction ‘sad’ and ‘a tragedy’

There’s affection and respect for the man who mentored far more colleagues than he bullied during his record 54-year reign. Ald. Ray Lopez said Burke’s ‘fingerprints are on so much of what is Chicago. To have this as the final act of a remarkable career is a tragedy.’

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Jurors begin deliberating historic racketeering case against Ed Burke

The case against the former Chicago alderperson has been pending for nearly five years.

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Feds close corruption case against Ed Burke by telling jurors his words on secret recordings are ‘absolutely devastating’

“What’s the best evidence of defendant Burke’s intent?” asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Streicker. “The words that came out of his mouth.”

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Former President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to a pre-kindergarten class at Parkside Community Academy in South Shore, people enjoyed hot tub rides down the Chicago River, andthe Humboldt Park Puerto Rican flag at Western and Division was lit up for the holiday season for the first time…

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Prosecutors ‘didn’t have the decency’ to call their key witness in Ed Burke’s corruption trial, defense says in closing arguments

“They ran an undercover investigation on Mr. Burke for 30 months — with the star witness being Danny Solis — and they didn’t have the decency to bring him to you,” said attorney Joseph Duffy.

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Former Ald. Ed Burke wielded power to ‘satisfy his own greed,’ prosecutor alleges in closing arguments

‘You have heard about a pattern of unlawful activity,’ prosecutor Diane MacArthur said. ‘Standing at the center of that steady drumbeat of unlawful activity is this man, Edward Burke.’

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So long, Solis? Defense rests in Burke trial after briefly questioning ‘hostile’ witness, FBI mole Danny Solis

Burke’s defense attorneys made good on their promise to call Solis to testify, forcing him out into the open nearly five years after the Chicago Sun-Times revealed his cooperation with the feds in January 2019.

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Defense: ‘Computer mistake,’ not pressure from Ed Burke, caused delays in Burger King work

City Hall bureaucracy took center stage in former Ald. Ed Burke’s corruption trial Thursday as one of the finer disputed points in the case came to a head.

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‘Do you have memory issues?’ Defense hammers at credibility of witness at Burke corruption trial

Witness is pressed why he didn’t initially tell FBI agents about the former alderperson’s apparent interest in getting private business from Burger King owners.

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Why Burger King did not hire Ed Burke’s law firm, despite alleged pressure from the powerful politician

Executive said the Klafter & Burke firm “seemed very disorganized.”

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The one that got away? Burke comes up empty after yearslong pursuit of the ‘tuna,’ jurors hear

Burke tried, but failed, to leverage his political clout to strong-arm business for his tax appeals firm out of the New York business that redeveloped the Old Post Office.

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Landing a ‘tuna,’ lobbing an F-bomb — Burke’s famous quotes played for jurors after defense mistrial denial

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall denied a request for mistrial over a remark about the ‘Chicago way of doing business’ being ‘very corrupt.’ That allowed prosecutors to proceed with recordings of Burke and witness testimony.

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