'You'll find out that Chicago's a very small town': Evidence in ex-Alderman Edward Burke trial to lay bare inner workings of one of city's last machine politicians

CHICAGO — Five years ago this month, decades of political dominance by a pair of old school Chicago Democratic politicians began to unravel when FBI agents descended on City Hall on an otherwise quiet Thursday morning. Even in a town accustomed to high-profile public corruption probes, the sight of brown butcher paper taped over the windows and glass doors of a storied seat of power such as ...

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