Corruption trial set to begin for former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke
CHICAGO -- Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the federal racketeering case against former Ald. Ed Burke , once the most powerful member of the Chicago City Council.Burke, who stepped away from politics last year as the longest-serving member of the City Council, following 54 years in office, is accused of trading political favors for lucrative business contracts for his law firm.
Later in his career, the harsh critic of Harold Washington championed a new crop of largely African-American aldermen.He and his wife — now retired Illinois Supreme Court Justice Ann Burke, who helped found the Special Olympics — adopted an African American child known as Baby T, who had been placed in foster care due to his mother's addiction to drugs.The family Burke had a family business, politics, and its patriarch knew it and navigated it with precision.
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