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Not even six months into the Brandon Johnson administration, his Council floor leader, Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, had become a liability the mayor simply could not afford.
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 potholes, fix up friends with patronage jobs, and make sure everyone who benefited knew how to vote — and for whom to vote. At its zenith during Mayor Richard J. Daley’s era, Chicago’s political .
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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