Protecting Chicago's Top Boss:Yearly tab for Ald. Burke’s bodyguards nearly $600,000

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The tab to Chicago taxpayers for providing a Chicago Police Department bodyguard detail to Ald. Edward M. Burke? Almost $600,000 per year.

That’s according to newly released figures from the Emanuel administration covering 2009.

The top-paid officer made more than $150,000 that year, according to the figures made public in response to a lawsuit filed by the Better Government Association.

The other police officers on the bodyguard detail made $147,000, $140,000, $133,000 and — for a part-time officer — $25,000, for a total of $595,000.

Chicago taxpayers pay high taxes to support this outrage. For more on Alderman Burke's rise to power.