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Then-Ald. Edward Burke seen in a surveillance photo meeting with the CEO of the Texas-based company that owns about 150 Burger Kings in the Chicago area.

Ex-Ald. Edward Burke corruption trial: Evidence seen and heard by the jury

February 20, 2024 at 6:58 p.m.

Former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke is finally getting his day in court. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a...

Ald. Daniel Solis, 25th, is flanked by Ald. Richard Mell, 33rd, left, and Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, before hearings in the Chicago City Council on May 28, 2013, to discuss proposals for the amendments to the parking meter deal. B582954710Z.1 (Nancy Stone/baiduhai) ct ....OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT, NO DIGITAL MANIPULATION...

‘While you’re at it, recommend the good firm of Klafter & Burke’: Jurors in ex-Ald. Ed Burke corruption trial hear first secret recordings by FBI mole Daniel Solis

November 28, 2023 at 8:11 p.m.

Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis was a newly minted FBI mole in August 2016 when he was instructed to call his then-powerful colleague, Ald. Ed Burke, and talk about the massive...

Former Ald. Ed Burke gets into an awaiting vehicle after attending his corruption trial at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, Nov. 28, 2023.

Jurors hear more about alleged Burger King scheme before ex-Ald. Ed Burke’s corruption trial is again slowed by a lawyer contracting COVID

November 27, 2023 at 4:34 p.m.

It was all-systems-go on the renovation of a Burger King on Chicago's Southwest Side in 2017 when the project's field representative got a strange call from then-Ald. Ed Burke's longtime...

Longtime Burke associate Peter Andrews, 73, arrives at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Nov. 6, 2023.

With ‘the tuna,’ Burger King and ‘the riot act,’ the trial of Chicago political icon Ed Burke is already finding its place in city lore

November 26, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

The federal racketeering case against Ed Burke is pure Chicago. At its core, the Burke trial, which just wrapped its third week, is about a series of alleged shakedowns by...

Burger King tycoon recounts morning FBI showed up at his Texas doorstep with questions about Ald. Ed Burke: ‘I was relieved when they said I’m not in trouble’

November 22, 2023 at 5:04 p.m.

On the morning the FBI raided then-Ald. Edward Burke's City Hall offices in November 2018, four federal agents more than a thousand miles away descended on the home of Houston-area...

Former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Dec. 21, 2023, after being convicted by a federal jury of racketeering conspiracy and a dozen other counts.

‘I’d also like to get some of his law business’: Testimony in ex-Ald. Ed Burke corruption trial moves to alleged Burger King scheme

November 22, 2023 at 9:17 a.m.

The owner of a Burger King in then-Ald. Edward Burke's Southwest Side ward told a federal jury Tuesday he agreed to hire the powerful Democrat's property tax law firm to...

Former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke, foreground, leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago during a lunch break in his corruption trial on Nov. 17, 2023.

‘I perceived it as a threat’: Former Field Museum higher-up tells jury about Ald. Ed Burke reading her the riot act over dropped internship application

November 20, 2023 at 7:53 p.m.

A longtime Field Museum government affairs director was calling powerful Chicago Ald. Edward Burke to ask for his support for the museum's fee-increase proposal in September 2017 when he caught...

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