Eileen O’Neill Burke, who stepped down this month as a justice of the state appellate court, has announced her bid to replace Kim Foxx as Cook County state’s attorney.
O’Neill Burke, a former assistant state’s attorney who was elected to a seat on the Chicago-based First Circuit Appellate Court in 2016, will kick off her candidacy for the Democratic Party nomination with a July 26 fundraiser at the Plumbers 130 Hall in Chicago. O’Neill Burke is the second candidate to enter the race to replace Foxx, who announced in April that she would not seek a third term in office.
