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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:39 am 
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Hailing a cab downtown earlier in the week.

I would bet he hasn't been in a non chauffeured city vehicle while downtown in several decades. It was almost one of those moments where you wish you had a black and white camera to snap an artistic photo.

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These new fangled cellphones have all sorts of filters nowadays. You can take a regular pic, and then change it to grayscale to get your B&W print.

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 Post subject: Re: Alderman Burke
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I used to see him at least once a month when my office was downtown. Always with a security detail and wearing a ridiculous suit that looked something like this:

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 Post subject: Re: Alderman Burke
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:lol: His glasses are straight outta 1992.

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 Post subject: Re: Alderman Burke
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I used to see him at least once a month when my office was downtown. Always with a security detail and wearing a ridiculous suit that looked something like this:

He got all flashy after Vrdolyak left and Burke became the Eddie with the power.

It was always kind of strange for me because in the 80s, the other alderman ridiculed the poor guy on the golf course. Just tore him apart in front of us. Showed him no respect at all. It was uncomfortable.

Real nice guy to caddy for, though. When he started off, he was a hack, but he improved over the years.


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why the fuck are alderman even assigned drivers. that's bullshit.


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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I used to see him at least once a month when my office was downtown. Always with a security detail and wearing a ridiculous suit that looked something like this:

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I saw that and immediately thought of Dorothy Tillman. Council wars with real teeth, and at least one alderman about to go for her .32 when her hat got knocked off iirc. :lol: :lol:

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I used to see him at least once a month when my office was downtown. Always with a security detail and wearing a ridiculous suit that looked something like this:

He got all flashy after Vrdolyak left and Burke became the Eddie with the power.

It was always kind of strange for me because in the 80s, the other alderman ridiculed the poor guy on the golf course. Just tore him apart in front of us. Showed him no respect at all. It was uncomfortable.

Real nice guy to caddy for, though. When he started off, he was a hack, but he improved over the years.



Obviously, I have a lot of opinions on dressing. And I have nothing against flashy dressing. My inclination is to dress flashily myself. But there's a time and a place. The other day I went to a wake and made sure not to wear an outrageous tie and/or pocket square. It just shouldn't be done. This is a guy making our laws and handling our money. He shouldn't be dressed like he's at the dice game in Guys and Dolls.

My dad was a banker and he was a sharp dresser, but very conservative as was befitting his profession. He was a perfect 38 regular and could buy his suits right off the rack. I need a lot of tailoring. Ernie Da Tailor (R.I.P.) told me I had "freakishly short arms for a man of my size". Anyway, my dad always wore expensive suits. Then my parents got divorced and I think he stopped giving a shit. It was the 70s and he started buying crap from Haband. In the mid-80s my parents got back together and my mom said, "Look, if we're going to do this you have to get some new clothes. One of the reasons I married you was because you dressed so well. Now you're wearing... you're wearing... I don't know what." She made him go out and spend $5000 on new suits.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
tommy wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I used to see him at least once a month when my office was downtown. Always with a security detail and wearing a ridiculous suit that looked something like this:

He got all flashy after Vrdolyak left and Burke became the Eddie with the power.

It was always kind of strange for me because in the 80s, the other alderman ridiculed the poor guy on the golf course. Just tore him apart in front of us. Showed him no respect at all. It was uncomfortable.

Real nice guy to caddy for, though. When he started off, he was a hack, but he improved over the years.



Obviously, I have a lot of opinions on dressing. And I have nothing against flashy dressing. My inclination is to dress flashily myself. But there's a time and a place. The other day I went to a wake and made sure not to wear an outrageous tie and/or pocket square. It just shouldn't be done. This is a guy making our laws and handling our money. He shouldn't be dressed like he's at the dice game in Guys and Dolls.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
tommy wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I used to see him at least once a month when my office was downtown. Always with a security detail and wearing a ridiculous suit that looked something like this:

He got all flashy after Vrdolyak left and Burke became the Eddie with the power.

It was always kind of strange for me because in the 80s, the other alderman ridiculed the poor guy on the golf course. Just tore him apart in front of us. Showed him no respect at all. It was uncomfortable.

Real nice guy to caddy for, though. When he started off, he was a hack, but he improved over the years.



Obviously, I have a lot of opinions on dressing. And I have nothing against flashy dressing. My inclination is to dress flashily myself. But there's a time and a place. The other day I went to a wake and made sure not to wear an outrageous tie and/or pocket square. It just shouldn't be done. This is a guy making our laws and handling our money. He shouldn't be dressed like he's at the dice game in Guys and Dolls.

My dad was a banker and he was a sharp dresser, but very conservative as was befitting his profession. He was a perfect 38 regular and could buy his suits right off the rack. I need a lot of tailoring. Ernie Da Tailor (R.I.P.) told me I had "freakishly short arms for a man of my size". Anyway, my dad always wore expensive suits. Then my parents got divorced and I think he stopped giving a shit. It was the 70s and he started buying crap from Haband. In the mid-80s my parents got back together and my mom said, "Look, if we're going to do this you have to get some new clothes. One of the reasons I married you was because you dressed so well. Now you're wearing... you're wearing... I don't know what." She made him go out and spend $5000 on new suits.


A shirt open to your navel wasn’t the right choice either Versace

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tommy wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I used to see him at least once a month when my office was downtown. Always with a security detail and wearing a ridiculous suit that looked something like this:

He got all flashy after Vrdolyak left and Burke became the Eddie with the power.

It was always kind of strange for me because in the 80s, the other alderman ridiculed the poor guy on the golf course. Just tore him apart in front of us. Showed him no respect at all. It was uncomfortable.

Real nice guy to caddy for, though. When he started off, he was a hack, but he improved over the years.



Obviously, I have a lot of opinions on dressing. And I have nothing against flashy dressing. My inclination is to dress flashily myself. But there's a time and a place. The other day I went to a wake and made sure not to wear an outrageous tie and/or pocket square. It just shouldn't be done. This is a guy making our laws and handling our money. He shouldn't be dressed like he's at the dice game in Guys and Dolls.

My dad was a banker and he was a sharp dresser, but very conservative as was befitting his profession. He was a perfect 38 regular and could buy his suits right off the rack. I need a lot of tailoring. Ernie Da Tailor (R.I.P.) told me I had "freakishly short arms for a man of my size". Anyway, my dad always wore expensive suits. Then my parents got divorced and I think he stopped giving a shit. It was the 70s and he started buying crap from Haband. In the mid-80s my parents got back together and my mom said, "Look, if we're going to do this you have to get some new clothes. One of the reasons I married you was because you dressed so well. Now you're wearing... you're wearing... I don't know what." She made him go out and spend $5000 on new suits.


A shirt open to your navel wasn’t the right choice either Versace


On a 95 degree day on the Arlington apron that may have been overdressed.

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tommy wrote:
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I used to see him at least once a month when my office was downtown. Always with a security detail and wearing a ridiculous suit that looked something like this:

He got all flashy after Vrdolyak left and Burke became the Eddie with the power.

It was always kind of strange for me because in the 80s, the other alderman ridiculed the poor guy on the golf course. Just tore him apart in front of us. Showed him no respect at all. It was uncomfortable.

Real nice guy to caddy for, though. When he started off, he was a hack, but he improved over the years.



So another guy with Richie Daley syndrome then.

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At a funeral this morning in the city.

He looked like he would have happily traded places with the deceased.

He looks like a guy trying to run out the clock.

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He was the Eddie that Harold didn’t respect. Can’t say that I could blame him. Burke is a scumbag

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He was the Eddie that Harold didn’t respect. Can’t say that I could blame him. Burke is a scumbag

You might even say that both Eddies were scumbags.

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He was the Eddie that Harold didn’t respect. Can’t say that I could blame him. Burke is a scumbag

You might even say that both Eddies were scumbags.

True. But Burke was the racist, Vrydolyak primarily a grubby opportunist.

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She made him go out and spend $5000 on new suits.

How do you know Ed Burke even has a suit.

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He was the Eddie that Harold didn’t respect. Can’t say that I could blame him. Burke is a scumbag

You might even say that both Eddies were scumbags.

True. But Burke was the racist, Vrydolyak primarily a grubby opportunist.

Yeah, besides a dislike for the Irish-Americans who assumed he was a "Polack," I don't think Eddie V. was obsessed with race like some of the others. Just a slimy--but very smart--lawyer.

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It sucks to give back one of your years at 80, but he probably serves less than a year in exchange for banking tens (that may be an underestimate) of millions over the years by way of the same actions. He probably gets in good shape in prison and adds more years to his life. The indignity of it all certainly has to hurt him more than it would hurt others. At the end of the day, he comes home to a loving family and generational wealth

Eddie V went to prison multiple times. I think he just accepted it as a cost of doing business. Now his law firm (no longer licensed) has billboards up across the city

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