Former Ald. Ed Burke was a parasite sucking the life out of this city for more than 50 years. Everything good he did was a cynical ploy to provide himself cover and make himself untouchable, just like every successful leader of an organized crime syndicate in history.
The fact that so many of his former colleagues on the Chicago City Council call his conviction “sad” or “a tragedy” only shows that every single one of them were also parasites sucking the life out of the city (“Ed Burke’s conviction ‘sad’ and ‘a tragedy,’ City Council colleagues say” — Dec. 21).
