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    Chicago official charged with attempted extortion of Burger King owners

    by Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune Jan 03, 2019 6 minutes

    CHICAGO - Longtime Alderman Edward Burke, one of Chicago's most powerful figures and a vestige of the city's old Democratic machine, has been charged with attempted extortion for allegedly using his position as alderman to try to steer business to his private law firm from a company seeking to renovate a fast-food restaurant in his ward.

    The criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court comes five weeks after the FBI carried out a stunning raid on Burke's City Hall office, working for hours behind windows covered with brown butcher paper before leaving down a back staircase with computers and files.

    According to the one count, Burke in 2017 tried to extort the owners of a company that operates dozens of fast-food restaurants in the Chicago area and needed help with permits for remodeling a restaurant in Burke's 14th Ward on the Southwest Side.

    Sources said it was a Burger King located at 4060 S. Pulaski Rd. - the same restaurant that Laquan McDonald passed by moments

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