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Monday afternoon marked the deadline for 2024 hopefuls to turn in their petitions to make it onto the March primary ballot, with candidates jockeying for ballot position and already firing off campaign barbs. Among the hopefuls trickling in on Monday to show off their stacks of signatures and officially get into the race for Cook County state’s attorney were Eileen O’Neill Burke, a Democrat, .
Eileen O’Neill Burke, a retired Illinois Appellate Court judge and a former Cook County assistant state’s attorney, filed more than 13,000 signatures to run as a Democrat for Cook County state’s attorney the last day candidates had to file petitions for the March primary.