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    Jury selection begins in ex-Chicago Alderman Edward Burke’s high-stakes federal corruption trial

    by Jason Meisner and Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune Nov 06, 2023 4 minutes
    Ed Burke, 14th, right, listens to City Council discussion of Mayor Lori Lightfoot's $16.4 billion 2023 budget on Nov. 7, 2022.

    CHICAGO — Nearly five years after he was first charged, ex-Chicago Ald. Edward Burke went 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, Burke, 79, served more than five decades 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.

    Burke arrived at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse at about 8:40 a.m. dressed in a dark suit and tan coat, without

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