Flashback: When Chicago Mob Associate and AFL-CIO Leader Ed Hanley Died Chicago Mob Linked Alderman Ed Burke Had Some Praise

Flashback January 9, 2000 the Chicago Sun-Times wrote an article on the death of fifth amendment Chicago Mob associate and AFL-CIO leader Ed Hanley. Alderman Ed Burke had words of praise:

"His rise from humble beginnings on Chicago's West Side to leadership in the union representing the hotel and restaurant workers of the nation is the stuff of legend," Ald. Ed Burke (14th) said.

Burke singled out Mr. Hanley's charitable efforts on behalf of the Archdiocese of Chicago and Maryville Academy in Des Plaines. Mr. Hanley was Maryville's man of the year in 1991.

Alderman Ed Burke's kind of guy. For Alderman Ed Burke's praise of mafia leader Alderman Fred Roti.