30 Chicago aldermen can go #### their mothers.
Good chance they don’t know who their fathers are.
One of the most corrupt cities I have ever visited and lived in
Someones Ox is being gored and they don’t like it
Boo Frickin Hoo
They probably already do.
Alderman Walter Burnett (27th) served two years in prison for armed bank robbery. He is eligible to serve in the Chicago City Council notwithstanding his felony conviction because he obtained a gubernatorial pardon that reinstated his civil rights.
Not that the underlying arrest and conviction were improper or incorrect, mind you, but simply because he was a seventeen year old when he was arrested.