Finally. A former alderman and attorney for years and years.Part of the old guard of old style Chicago politics. Had a protective police detail for years. BTW long time Democrat

CHICAGO — The federal trial of Ed Burke has been delayed for a week due to an attorney testing positive for COVID-19.

Potential jurors have been sent home as a result and two other attorneys are also not feeling well.

“Stay healthy. Make sure you drink your orange juice and get your sleep because we have work to do,” the judge told the prosecutors and defense attorneys.

They will reconvene on Thursday, Nov. 16.

Wednesday was the third straight day potential jurors are faced questions in the 25th floor court room of Judge Virginia Kendall.

The group is trying to whittle a pool of more than 50 potential jurors down to 12 and four alternates.

Burke is on trial with two co-defendants: his longtime aide Peter Andrews and developer Charles Cui.

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Burke himself faces 14 counts of racketeering, bribery and extortion. Prosecutors say he abused his public office for private gain, but withholding permits unless business owners used his private law firm for tax appeals – among other alleged schemes.

Burke has pleaded not guilty as have his co-defendants.

LINK https://wgntv.com/news/coronav...-attorney-with-covid

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Can't believe the guy is still around. I remember him when I was living in the area back in the 80's.

May he spend the rest of his days in jail.

79 years young. THey finally nailed Fast Eddie
Vrdolyak. He served two stints in Federal Prison. He is now 85.

For those who do not know, Chicago has always been dominated by Machine politics. This is the biggest trial since "The Family Secrets trial". {This was the trial of top wise guys in the Outfit.} He has three top defense attorneys and the Judge is no slouch.
Burke was a kingmaker in Chicago and an expert in shaking down businesses through his law firm.
Here is a link to some more background. She is not someone I like but provides good background. I know CPD Sig is familiar with this case and hope he will comment. Here is the link:

https://www.nbcchicago.com/top...generation-lightfoot

And his wife is former Chief Justice of the IL Supreme Court Anne M. Burke. She retired a little less than a year ago.

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Correct. Too bad it will not be televised.

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Originally posted by M1Garandy:
And his wife is former Chief Justice of the IL Supreme Court Anne M. Burke. She retired a little less than a year ago.

His wife is just as lovely as he is [/ sarcasm ]

Fast Eddie Vyrdolak and Ed Burke have always been "the man behind the curtain". But they aren't the only ones, there's a metric shit-ton after them.

And if lightfoot wants to shoot her pie hole off, she should be lucky she's not in jail as well. Her neglect of this city and incompetence was criminal.

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But they aren't the only ones, there's a metric shit-ton after them.

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Growing up in Chicago my parents always talked about the Democratic machine. I always imagined some giant robot. I soon learned though about No Show jobs and the like. I remember John Kass ofthe Tribune asking for names of people who had NO SHOW jobs. There is corruption where I live but on a much smaller scale.

My only exposure to Burke and his BS was through the old Second City Cop blog.
It was NOT favorable!

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Originally posted by KMitch200:
My only exposure to Burke and his BS was through the old Second City Cop blog.

What is old is new again, the blog is back up and running and has been for a bit.

Trial is under way. Some good video at the link:
https://www.nbcchicago.com/top...ed-burke-corruption-