Nearly five years after the feds closed in on Chicago’s longest-serving and most powerful City Council member, former Ald. Edward M. Burke spent Monday at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse listening to people from all walks of life who could soon decide his fate.
Twenty people who could be chosen as jurors in Burke’s corruption trial discussed their work, their family and friends, and how they get their news as they fielded questions from U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall and several lawyers.
