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 ...

The Coleman P. Burke Environmental Law Center hosted its first junior environmental law scholar conference on May 21, 2024. This marks an expansion of the Burke Center’s commitment to fostering new ...

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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 ...

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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Federal prosecutors are asking for 10 years in prison for former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke, arguing in a lengthy filing late Monday that the 80-year-old Democratic machine stalwart was “steeped in ...

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 disgraced former aldermanic powerhouse retains his law license despite his conviction on multiple felony counts tied to using his public position to pressure those needing various city approvals ...

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 ...

An up-and-coming actress dies while surfing, apparently from an obscure medieval poison. But how was it administered? When Burke is faced with an unfamiliar milieu, he sends Tim undercover as a surfer ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...