FBI agents on Thursday descended on the City Hall and 14th Ward offices of seemingly omnipotent, five-decade alderman Edward Burke but federal authorities declined to say why.

CHICAGO (WGN) — Former Chicago alderman Ed Burke was released from prison Tuesday after serving less than 10 months of his two-year sentence for public corruption. The Federal Bureau of Prisons ...

Less than 10 months after he entered a federal prison following his conviction on corruption charges, former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke has been released.

Burke, 75, currently stands charged in a federal criminal complaint with attempted extortion, alleging the shakedown of two fast food businessmen looking to renovate their Southwest Side restaurant.

The nation's longest serving public official, former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, amassed a mega-million-dollar campaign fund that enabled him to underwrite multiple winning runs for office. Now ...

Former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke released from federal prison 00:30. Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, who went to prison last year, after being convicted on bribery and racketeering charges, has been ...

As former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke is released from federal prison, he still has more of his sentence left to serve. Burke was released from the Thomson Federal Correctional Institution on Tuesday ...