The longest-serving alderman in Chicago history, Burke now faces high-profile trial on 14 federal charges in a racketeering case that begins Monday.
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 machine was an enormous self-sustaining network, and the city ran on it for decades.
” “Well, you know as well as I do, Jews are Jews, and they’ll deal with Jews to the exclusion of everybody else unless … unless there’s a reason for them to use a Christian,” Burke said. Burke’s power over City Hall suffered a setback when a federal court ordered changes in ward boundaries that allowed more Washington allies to join the council. Once Washington was reelected in 1987, Burke lost his Finance Committee chairmanship. He regained it when Richard M.
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