# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-m-burke
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:31:00.483Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-m-burke"
name: "Edward M. Burke"
slug: "edward-m-burke"
description: "Edward Michael Burke is an American politician and convicted felon who served as the alderman of Chicago's 14th ward from 1969 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the Chicago City Council in 1969, and represented part of the city's Southwest Side. While the chair of the Council's Committee on Finance, Burke had been called Chicago's \"most powerful alderman\" by the Chicago Sun-Times. Burke was named one of the \"100 Most Powerful Chicagoans\" by Chicago Magazine, describing him as \"[o]ne of the last of the old-school Chicago Machine pols.\""
tagline: "Chicago alderman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AldermanEdwardMBurke.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1943-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.321098666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ادوارد ام. بورک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إدوارد إم. بيرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوارد ام. بيرك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._Burke"
    title: "Edward M. Burke"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_M._Burke"
    title: "Edward M. Burke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%85._%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%A9"
    title: "ادوارد ام. برک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5344252"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump