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Former Ald. Ed Burke, convicted late last year of racketeering, bribery and attempted extortion, has been allowed to keep his law license after a majority of the state Supreme Court recused themselves ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) --Former Ald. Edward Burke will be able to keep his Illinois law license, despite his recent conviction on federal corruption charges, after the state's highest court was left unable to ...

Whether a job can be considered “property” and what constitutes an “official act” were the focus of court arguments Wednesday in ex-Chicago Ald. Edward Burke’s corruption case, where Burke’s attorneys ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feds say ex-Ald. Ed Burke used his power on ‘dark path’ of corruption, seek 10 years in prison Federal prosecutors are asking for ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former Chicago political powerhouse Edward Burke was back in court Wednesday. Lawyers for the 80-year-old former 14th Ward alderman, City Council Finance Committee chairman, and ...

The family of the judge who sentenced former Ald. Edward M. Burke to two years in prison for strong-arming developers to retain his law firm once hired Burke’s firm to help their company fight City ...

Former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke has formally retired as a lawyer, a change in status from just two weeks ago when WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times first reported how a hamstrung Illinois Supreme Court ...