Live 2024 Cook County State's Attorney Election Results

CHICAGO – The office of Cook provinceThe court’s top prosecutor will look very different in January, regardless of who wins the breed.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is leaving public office, leaving behind a race for her seat between Democrat Eileen O’Neill Burke, a former judge of the Cook County Circuit and the Court of Appeals, and Republican Bob Fioretti, a former judge. Chicago alderman and Democratic candidate for mayor and chairman of Cook County Board.

Results will be released after polls close at 7 p.m

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Both candidates have promised to take a tougher approach crime than Foxx, who tends to prosecute lower-level violations less aggressively than her predecessors.

“People everywhere were telling me they wanted to go out at night and not have to worry,” O’Neill Burke said. “They want to use a safe public transportation system. People want illegal guns and assault weapons off our streets.”

“We are facing a lot of crime, the highest number of robberies in history last year,” Fioretti told Fox 32. “We are facing high taxes, lack of education for our children, and all of this has created a tsunami that causes people to leave this city and this province.”

Both Fioretti and O’Neill Burke support prosecuting shoplifting as a misdemeanor when the value of the stolen goods is $300 or more. Foxx has chosen to prosecute cases involving goods valued between $300 and $1,000 as felonies.

The two also agree to seek pre-trial detention for the most serious crimes, including cases involving the unlawful use of a firearm. Cash bail has been eliminated under the state’s new Pretrial Fairness Act.

Republican candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney Bob Fioretti, left, and Democratic candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Fioretti has criticized O’Neill Burke for appearing to shift her crackdown on crime between the Democratic primary and the general election. He himself has faced controversy, having run for elected office several times and losing after his career as a Chicago alderman ended. Fioretti has also been sued by former campaign staff for failing to pay them.

O’Neill Burke defeated more progressive challenger Clayton Harris III in the Democratic primary. Fioretti was unopposed in the Republican primary.