Good afternoon, 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 Ald. Edward Burke‘s office suite was stunning.
But it was also just the beginning. In the ensuing months, the dominoes continued to topple, first with Burke’s indictment, then raids on a host of politicians and lobbyists connected to then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, followed by the indictment in March 2022 of Madigan himself.
Now, with the corruption trial of Burke and two co-defendants set to begin Monday, the inner workings of one of Chicago’s last machine politicians will be laid bare in a federal courtroom.
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