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6 days ago · Sentencing for former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke will go forward next week after a federal judge on Friday denied a last-ditch effort to postpone the hearing until after the U.S. Supreme Court...
4 days ago · Former Ald. Edward Burke, left, exits the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse with his attorney Chris Gair after he was found guilty of most of the charges in his corruption trial, Dec. 21, 2023.
3 days ago · Burke’s aide, Peter Andrews, was on trial with the former alderman, but he was found not guilty. Ex-Ald. Ed Burke leaves Dirksen Federal Courthouse on June 24, 2024 after he was sentenced to two years in prison for federal corruption charges.
2 days ago · Former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke will learn his fate soon as his sentencing hearing is underway Monday in a corruption case that rocked city politics and ended his storied and controversial six-decade career. Burke walked into the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse shortly after 9:15 a.m., dressed in a dark suit, green tie and black pocket square, passing a horde of news cameras in the lobby without ...
1 day ago · Eric Zorn: Burke will be a dark chapter in Chicago history | WGN Radio 720 - Chicago's Very Own. Ex-Ald. Ed Burke, 14th, exits the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, following a post-trial motions hearing for acquittal in his corruption trial which ended in Dec. 2023. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via ...
3 days ago · Today a largely forgotten unsung hero on that issue was conservative Republican Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois. At the time, Dirksen was the minority floor leader. In February 1964, the U.S. House approved a civil rights bill originally proposed by former President Kennedy.
1 day ago · CHICAGO – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA) today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging the Department to issue a policy directive ensuring that vulnerable children seeking protection through the Central American Minors program (CAM) have ...
