Ex-Chicago Alderman Gets Two Years For Boosting Law Firm

By Celeste Bott ( June 24, 2024, 6:28 PM EDT) -- An Illinois federal judge on Monday sentenced former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke to two years in prison and fined him $2 million for using his official position to steer tax business to his personal law firm, closing what prosecutors called "another sordid chapter" in the city's history of public corruption....

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