Aldermann Edward M Burke, 14th Ward, stands trial this week, corruption trial, and I've got a lot of history with him.

Think of it that you're looking at a building, a two flat, and there's a lace curtain.

Because I always thought of the Berks as lace curtain Irish. Good at Wakes. It went to the wakes all the time. Burke never, as I know, never tried to cut in line at a wake.

Did all the things that you're supposed to do, conventions like that.

Congratulated the veteran on the return home from the war,

congratulated the father and mother as the graduation of the child, the honoring the dead in obituaries.

But all that's coming down now.

Jeff Carlin and I will be talking about it

on the Chicago way on WGM plus. So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this

Tammany Hall style attitude to power and it is it's the Chicago way absolutely.

The Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon.

It's the Chicago way. The Chicago Way. That's the focus.

In a tower by the river, there lived a man.

That a soul. There was a man who took a stand with pen and paper in his hand

Defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword. No escape from his ink lasso in a tower by the river, castle.

Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, you send one of yours to the hospital, you say, one of hiss to the morgue.

Thats, the shirpackle man.

So here's something I never thought I'd see.

Alderman Edward Burke preparing to put an orange federal jump suit on,

handcuffs, and the rest. I never thought I'd see it. And you know what, I truly don't like, I don't like it when I see people who were terrified of him and didn't say anything about him in the media.

For years and years, and now they're acting all tough like a bunch of jackals coming after the

lion when the lion broke his leg and it I can't help it, but I don't like that, Jeff.

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