Ed is Nearby

The Federal Bureau of Prisons seems to have kept Burke in Illinois:

• Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, the longest-serving alderman in city history, was booked into prison on Monday and subsequently began serving a two-year sentence on corruption charges.

  Burke, 80, was expected to report to the minimum security camp at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, but those plans appeared to change at the last minute.

  The former alderman was instead lodged at a federal minimum security camp in Thomson, Illinois, a village of around 500 residents in the far northeast corner of the state. A village in Carroll County, Thomson is 48 miles northwest of Moline.

If anyone is interested in sending Ed some fan mail, there's an entire page on how to do so at this link here. But the basic info is:

• Edward Burke No. 53-698-424

  FCI Thomson

  FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION SATELLITE CAMP 

  P.O. BOX 1002
  THOMSON, IL 61285

There's even instructions on how to send Ed money at his commissary account in case you still have to finish paying for that "merit" promotion or that airport slot from years ago. Visiting might be a bit more complicated, but the website seems very thorough.