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Despite federal indictment, donors give Burke $15,500
Longtime 14th Ward Alderman Ed Burke is facing a 14-count federal indictment, but that hasn’t stopped donors from sending money his way.
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Who's taken campaign cash from Ed Burke? Who hasn't?
Democrats and Republicans. Conservatives and liberals. City dwellers and suburbanites. Supporters and opponents. Hatfields and McCoys.
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Burke's biggest financial backers include bar owners, business titans
Former Exelon Chairman and CEO John Rowe made $23.5 million for working three months in 2012. Bobby Burleson owns Kincade's, one of Lincoln Park's most popular taverns. Both are among the biggest individual financial backers of Ald. Edward Burke (D-14th), according to analysis of 20 years of Illinois State Board of Election records by Chicago City Wire.