CHICAGO — Prosecutors on Friday presented closing arguments in the racketeering case of six purported gang members charged with carrying out the brazen, broad-daylight murder of drill rapper FBG Duck in the Gold Coast in August 2020 as part of a deadly, yearslong conflict between two South Side gang factions. “They didn’t all pull the trigger, but when they learned where Carlton Weekly was .
The Chicago City Council icon turned felon is entitled to more than $540,000 he paid into a city pension fund and a nearly $2.5 million payout from his campaign fund.
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CHICAGO — Generations of Chicagoans accustomed to grimy politics might view former Ald. Ed Burke’s federal racketeering conviction last week as just another case in a long conga line of crooked aldermen. But Burke was an undisputed Democratic kingpin. He not only set a record for serving 54 years in the City Council, but he departed in May as the last alderman who rose to power in the era of .
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