In video after video, jurors in Ed Burke’s federal corruption trial have gotten an unfiltered view of a Chicago powerhouse.

       Burke, pink-faced and impeccably dressed, swears and swaggers and schmoozes. He waxes eloquent about Chicago history. And, federal authorities allege, he speaks about extracting private law business from people with issues at City Hall as casually as if it’s the weather.

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       Daniel Solis, the man wearing the hidden camera, is seen only in flashes: jittery close-up views of his wristwatch, his fidgety fingers, the zipper of his jacket.