CHICAGO — Michele Ryba credits former Ald. Edward Burke with the fact she feels safe walking to the CTA Orange Line at dawn. For her, the quality of life in the Southwest Side’s 14th Ward is more ...

Lawyers for ex-Ald. Edward Burke on Thursday sought to portray the once-mighty Democratic machine politician as an honest broker of city business who respected the guardrails between public and ...

Former political powerhouses Ed Burke and Mike Madigan are seeking pardons from President Donald Trump after their corruption convictions.

CHICAGO (CBS) – The corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke is just days from the start of jury deliberation. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys presented their closing arguments on ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Chicago political powerhouse Edward Burke was back in court Wednesday. Lawyers for the 80-year-old former 14th Ward alderman, City Council Finance Committee chairman, and ...

A federal judge has ruled that former Ald. Edward Burke’s allegedly insensitive comments on wiretaps about Jewish lawyers can be heard by the jury at his upcoming corruption trial. Burke’s attorneys ...

Five years after the FBI raided his offices and six weeks after his federal corruption trial began, former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke on Thursday inched closer than ever to learning his fate, as ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Our coverage of this story has moved here. There was new testimony on Tuesday about former Alderman Ed Burke's ties to an alleged shakedown involving a Burger King restaurant in what ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke was found guilty of all counts except for one in his federal corruption case Thursday. The former Chicago alderman faced 14 counts, including ...

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall seemed affected by the hundreds of letters written by Burke’s supporters. “I have never in all my career seen the letters that I have received for Mr. Burke.” When ...

The family of the judge who sentenced former Ald. Edward M. Burke to two years in prison for strong-arming developers to retain his law firm once hired Burke’s firm to help their company fight City ...