Ed Burke, formerly the powerful chairman of the Chicago City Council Finance Committee, was sentenced to two years in federal prison and fined $2 million at the Everett McKinley Dirksen federal courthouse in the city on June 24. 

The sentence, by U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall, was far less than the six-to-eight-and-a-half years recommended by federal sentencing guidelines and the 10 years sought by prosecutors for Burke's 2023 conviction for racketeering and extortion crimes involving having developers hire his law firm as a way to advance projects before the city council.