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CHICAGO — The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) has started referring eligible youth to an unprecedented pilot program that ensures juveniles charged with serious offenses remain engaged in school, receive cognitive…
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CHICAGO - Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke today announced that prosecutors have charged Adam Beckerink with First Degree Murder in connection with the killing of his wife, 36-year-old Caitlin Tracey, whose body was discovered at the bottom of a stairwell in…
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This article, by Sophie Sherry, appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times print edition on Dec. 19, 2025. The Cook County state’s attorney’s office will launch a new pilot program offering an alternative to jail for teenage boys from the city’s West Side who’ve been accused of serious crimes.The…
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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 support and after-school wraparound services,…
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CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke today discussed the mission of the newly formed Choice Protection Unit (CPU), a multi-disciplinary team at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) that is devoted to safeguarding reproductive rights, during a national…
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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 priorities and public safety accomplishments, as well as Burke’s personal…
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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 luncheon, Burke…
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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 abusing five victims, boys between the ages of 7 and 14 years…
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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 comprehensively trained Chicago Police Department officers to directly file certain nonviolent…
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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 fleeing the country after he was questioned in connection…