Live results of the 2024 Cook County State’s Attorney election

CHICAGO – Office of Cook CountyHis lead attorney will look a lot different come January, no matter who wins race.

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

The results will start to be displayed after the polls close at 19.00

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Both candidates have promised to take a tougher approach crime than Foxx, who tended to pursue lower-level offenses less aggressively than her predecessors.

“People have told me all over that they want to go out at night and not be worried,” O’Neill Burke said. “They want to travel on a safe public transport system. People want illegal guns and assault weapons off our streets.”

“We’re dealing with a lot of crime, with the highest amount of robberies in history last year,” Fioretti told Fox 32. “We’re dealing with high taxes, a lack of education for our children, and all of that has created a tsunami that make people leave this city and this county.”

Both Fioretti and O’Neill Burke favor prosecuting retail theft as a felony when the value of the stolen goods is $300 or more. Foxx chose to prosecute cases involving property valued between $300 and $1,000 as misdemeanors.

The two also agree to seek pretrial detention for the most serious crimes, including those involving the illegal use of a weapon. Cash bail was 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 criticized O’Neill Burke for appearing to change her tough-on-crime persona between the Democratic primary and the general election. He faced controversy himself, running for elected office several times and losing after his career as a Chicago alderman ended. Fioretti was also sued by former campaign staffers for failing to pay them.

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