By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
At City Hall, Ald Ed Burke has made an interesting decision about whether to be part of an audience with the Pope in Rome on Wednesday.
Burke’s wife Anne is co-founder of the Special Olympics and on Wednesday there’s an audience with the pope in Rome to mark the 50th anniversary of the organization.
So is the devout Catholic Alderman Ed Burke going to Rome for an audience with the pope or to the City Council to attend to his duties as Chairman of Finance?
“I am not going to spoil my perfect attendance record and absent myself from the City Council Chamber.
Cameron: “Any danger you’re going to snub the pope?”
Burke: “Well, I figure having not missed a meeting since 1970 that I shouldn’t start now. The better half of the family will be there.”
As they say, all politics is local.
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