Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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Friday, July 22, 2011
Ald. Ed Burke’s law firm adds clients with ties to local government
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
In 2009, Burke reported 34 law clients that did business with the city. Last year, he added five more.
The list includes: Avis Budget Group; AT&T; Bank of America; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois; Brandenburg Industrial Service; Centerpoint Properties; Centrum Properties; Cole Taylor Bank; Columbia Michael Reese Hospital; Commonwealth Edison; Community Housing Partner XI, L.P.; Dominick’s; Elenco Electronics; Fifth Third Bank; Friedman Properties; Greater Southwest Development Corp.; The Habitat Company and Harris Bank.
Burke’s client roster also includes: Humana, Inc.; Imperial Realty; Jewel Osco; JP Morgan Chase Bank; K-Five Construction; Kenny Construction; Marc Realty; MB Real Estate; New West Realty; Northern Trust; Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Seaway National Bank; Southwest Airlines; South Shore Plumbing & Heating Supply; Standard Bank & Trust; T Mobile; U.S. Equities Realty; Union League Club of Chicago; Walgreens; WBBM and Wentworth Tire.
The Sun-Times reported last month that Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is likely to retain Burke as Finance chairman, but shrink the roster and spending of City Council committees.
Emanuel had already declared his determination to avoid going to war with Burke even as he referenced the conflict posed by the alderman’s law practice.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Ed Burke's Jewish Comment Comes Back to Haunt Him
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
'A Jew will never be elected mayor of Chicago,” Ed Burke said. “There is a latent anti-Semitism in Chicago and a large population that will never vote for a Jew. They would vote for anybody before a Jew.”
Granted, Burke said that a long time ago -- in 1976, three days before Richard J. Daley died. Then Burke was a 32-year-old “young Turk” on the City Council. Now he is its elder lion, king of the Finance Committee and, with Rahm Emanuel in a position to possibly be elected Chicago’s first Jewish mayor Tuesday, and his faith in the headlines — I didn’t want to be the guy to broach the subject — I wondered whether Burke, who is backing Gery Chico, cared to revisit his remarks.
“Times have changed a lot,” Burke said Friday. “I was talking about politics in general. I was not advocating that position, I was making an observation.”
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Alderman Burke's $8.1 Million Campaign Fund
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Six Chicago aldermen — and one political newcomer — are shoo-ins to win seats on the City Council on Feb. 22 because they are running unopposed.
One of those aldermen, Finance Committee Chairman Edward M. Burke (14th), has the most campaign cash of anyone on the council, records show — more than $8.1 million. Burke has faced an election-day opponent just once since he was first elected to the council in 1971. That was four years ago.
Burke controls three campaign funds: Friends of Edward M. Burke, the 14th Ward Regular Democratic Organization and The Burnham Committee. Altogether, those three funds took in a total of more than $1.1 million in the last six months of 2010, including $350,000 in loan repayments from Gov. Quinn’s campaigns.
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