• Heather Cherone
    MAR 19, 2020
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    Burke on brink of losing his spot as 14th Ward committeeperson after 52 years

    Ald. Ed Burke (14) listens at the May 29 City Council meeting. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line] 

    When State Rep. Aaron Ortiz (D-Chicago) was born in 1991, 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke had been the highest-ranking Democratic Party official in the Southwest Side ward for 23 years.

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