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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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CHICAGO — The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office today announced a range of charges in the highly orchestrated smash-and-grab burglary of the Louis Vuitton Chicago Michigan Avenue store that resulted in the…

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CHICAGO — Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke today announced that charges have been filed against six offenders who allegedly stole $170,500 worth of watches from a Michigan Avenue Rolex store…

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New law improves process for first-time offenders in non-violent, low-level gun possession cases to obtain FOID card upon successful compliance with a diversion program