Chicago’s annals of crime in politics already date back nearly 100 years and continue to undermine the public's trust in our government.
Chicago and Illinois have suffered more than their fair share of crooked politicians. Federal prosecutors here have enjoyed a near-perfect track record of putting them away. Now comes the corruption trial of former Ald. Edward Burke, the longtime, uber-powerful chairman of the Chicago City Council’s Finance Committee. The trial, which kicked off last week at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in downtown Chicago, could make history.
Federal convictions for public corruption in Chicago and Illinois had been declining for decades, but “there was a countertrend uptick in 2021, and Illinois, on a per capita basis, is still the third most corrupt state in the nation, and Chicago, remains the most corrupt federal judicial district in the country,” the report found. The researchers analyzed public corruption statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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