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CHICAGO — The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) has secured more than $1 million in funding from the Cook County Justice Advisory Council (JAC) and a private foundation to launch an innovative pilot program that will provide academic…

CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke today discussed the mission of the newly formed Choice Protection…

CHICAGO — At the conclusion of her first year in office, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke sat down with WGN-TV anchor Patrick Elwood for a wide-ranging interview that spanned the new administration’s Day One…

CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke marked one year in office today by issuing a progress report as well as laying out a vision for how her reinvigorated office can continue building on the momentum of 2025’s public safety gains. At a City Club of…

CHICAGO — The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) has filed five felony counts of sexual assault against a former mental health counselor at Hartgrove Behavioral Health Hospital. Edmund Rivers, 68, is accused of sexually…

CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke today announced the citywide implementation of Expedited Felony Review (EFR), an expansion of a successful pilot program that allows…

CHICAGO — The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) has filed first-degree murder charges against a 68-year-old man who is accused of fatally shooting an acquaintance inside the man's Gold Coast apartment in 2004 and then…

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke welcomed 37 new prosecutors to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) during a swearing-in ceremony on Thursday for the Class of 2025, the first cohort of recent law school graduates recruited and trained by her…

The offender was convicted of first-degree murder for using a ghost gun with an extended magazine to fatally shoot Woom Sing Tse, a beloved grandfather and father of three

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