Jury selection to begin in ex-Alderman Ed Burke’s high stakes federal corruption trial
Nearly five years after he was first charged, ex-Chicago alderman Edward Burke is set to go on trial Monday in a high-stakes corruption case that will lay bare the inner workings of one of the city’s last Democratic machine politicians.
Burke’s historic trial is the latest in a series of public corruption cases built by prosecutors that have fundamentally altered the Illinois political landscape. The son of a Democratic ward boss and alderman, on the City Council and allegedly ran the Finance Committee like his own personal fiefdom before his office was dramatically raided by the FBI in November 2018.
