Only days after being convicted in a sweeping federal corruption case, former Ald. Ed Burke began the new year by collecting a bigger pension check courtesy of an automatic hike that former House Speaker Michael Madigan is also all but guaranteed to get now that his own corruption trial was recently postponed until fall. Burke, Chicago’s longest-serving alderman, stands to collect nearly .
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Former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke was convicted by a federal jury Thursday of racketeering conspiracy and a dozen other counts for using the clout of his elected office to win private law business from developers. The nearly clean sweep of guilty verdicts capped a stunning fall for Burke, the former head of the city Finance Committee and Democratic political machine master who served a record .
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