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The long-awaited federal racketeering trial of Chicago Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th) has been set for November 2023, giving the city’s longest-serving City Council member an opportunity to seek reelection while facing federal criminal charges — again.

After years of delay, Ald. Edward Burke finally has a trial date in his blockbuster federal racketeering case.

It was meant to be the next big thing after Cross River Rail, but the planned east-west Brisbane Subway has been largely forgotten. Until now.

Bernard Harvey Jr. had a history of mental illness and suffered from schizophrenia at the time of the shooting, according to filings from his defense attorney.

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U.S. District Court Judge Robert Dow’s 194-page ruling paves the way for Burke and his co-defendants, longtime aide Peter Andrews and Portage Park businessman Charles Cui, to stand trial together in 2023, more than three years after they were indicted and pleaded not guilty.

A federal judge on Monday ruled against Ald. Edward Burke and his co-defendants in a slew of pretrial motions seeking to suppress evidence and toss certain charges in his racketeering case.

The motions, first filed in August 2020, have played a key role in preventing the 3-year-old racketeering case from going to trial, along with the pandemic. Federal prosecutors pushed for a trial date at a recent hearing, saying, “There is a public interest in the trial here.”

A leading rail advocate has called on the Queensland government to follow Victoria’s lead and release SEQ’s new rail map.

A federal judge said Tuesday that he is preparing to issue a nearly 200-page ruling in the corruption case against Ald. Edward Burke (14th Ward) that could determine whether federal prosecutors can use thousands of hours of the powerful politician’s telephone conversations.