Here’s a look at the 14th Ward alderman's career, indictment and upcoming trial.
As the 14th Ward alderman for more than half a century, Edward Burke not only has claimed the record as the longest-serving City Council member in the history of Chicago, but he also became one of the most powerful. Here’s a look at his life, career, indictment and upcoming trial. Born to Joseph P. and Anna Burke.
Burke blames a dead man — Horace Lindsay, the Finance Committee supervisor — for forging time sheets. “I don’t supervise the personnel,” Burke said then. “Do you expect I should know where everybody is, all 75 or 80 people or whoever’s there?” At the time, officials had been looking closely at Burke since former short-time Ald. Joseph A.
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