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Backers of Cook County state’s attorney candidate Clayton Harris III are arguing his opponent’s “irresponsible and reckless lack of judgment” in prosecuting a young boy in 1993 gives voters a “clear choice” about who to elect in the March primary. The Tribune reported last month about Eileen O’Neill Burke’s prosecution of an 11-year-old boy accused of killing his elderly neighbor, Anna Gilvis, ...

Two short years after joining the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, Eileen O’Neill was lead prosecutor in the 1993 murder case of Anna Gilvis, an 83-year-old woman found dead and beaten inside her Chicago Lawn home, her hands tied and throat slashed. The crime was heinous. But just as shocking was that the defendant was an 11-year-old boy, referred to in court documents only as “A.M.” ...

Good afternoon, Chicago. The jury has reached a verdict in the historic corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke, the former head of the City Council Finance Committee and Democratic political machine master accused of using the clout of his elected office to win private law business from developers. The jury of nine women and three men deliberated for about 23 hours over four days ...