Ed Burke Episode 1: Pinball and Patronage.

This is the beginning of a five-part series where Alyssa tells John Zinn about someone who might be Chicago’s most notorious current politician. Known as Slow Ed to some and Burger King Burke to others we are gong to highlight the fifty-four-year career of former alderman Ed Burke a man described by the Federal Prosecutors as “thoroughly corrupt.” 

In this episode we lay the groundwork for his rise to power covering the 1960’s and 1970’s. 

We also talk about Lauren Boebert’s night at the theatre.  

SHOW NOTES:

Chicago Tribune: Timeline: Edward Burke, Chicago’s longest-serving alderman, leaves City Council with a federal trial pending

Chicago Magazine: In 1997, We Profiled Ed Burke. He Was in Trouble Then, Too

WTTW: End of the Burke Era: A 54-year Political Reign at City Hall Comes to a Close

WBUR: How Chicago Politics Produced A Deeply Entrenched Culture Of Corruption

Chicago Magazine: Ed Burke Is Maybe, Finally Done

Reason: Chicago Alderman and Notorious Nanny-Stater Ed Burke Charged in Federal Corruption Scheme

Chicago Magazine: Oh, How the Mighty Three Eddies Have Fallen

Chicago Magazine: Nobody Wants to Be Ed Burke’s Friend Anymore

Chicago Magazine: The Most Corrupt Addresses in the Chicago Area

Chicago Reader: Chicago once waged a 40-year war on pinball

Chicago Tribune: Vintage Chicago Tribune: Ald. Edward Burke used mapmaking skills, political guile to hold on to seat his father first occupied some 70 years ago

CST: From ‘young Turk’ to Trump tax lawyer — Burke’s half century of ups and downs

CST: Ald. Ed Burke at 50 years: A remarkable story of political survival

WGN: The Political Past

ABC: Ald. Ed Burke praised, criticized for legacy on Chicago City Council

Chicago Reader: Good riddance

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