Ed Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a home steeped in Chicago’s particular street-level realpolitik: Smooth over ...
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In the 1919 mayoral campaign in Chicago, a young Richard J. Daley signed up as a precinct captain in Chicago’s 11th Ward, and he hitched his wagon to the Cook County Democratic Organization, otherwise ...
The Chicago machine he grew up with and worked to his advantage has atrophied. Federal prosecutors have accused Burke of using his position as alderman to leverage the public’s business for his ...
Ed Burke was born into the machine. The son of a Democratic ward boss and 14th Ward alderman, the younger Burke grew up in a home steeped in Chicago’s particular street-level realpolitik: Smooth over ...
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