Sophie’s Tavern has been open near the intersection of Archer Avenue and Pulaski Road in Chicago’s 14th Ward most of the time Ed Burke was in office.
Over those roughly 40 years, the bar owner, Sophie herself, felt an unspoken pressure to contribute to Burke’s campaigns. But pointing to an unevenly paved sidewalk at the bar’s entrance that she previously asked the Chicago City Council member’s office to address, she says she never got much out of it.
