Currently holds the office of Cook County State's Attorney until December 31, 2028.
Candidate for Cook County State's Attorney in 2024 Illinois General Election.
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Get StartedEileen knows we’ll never get crime under control without addressing its root causes—poverty, historic disinvestment in neighborhoods, and a revolving door of kids getting involved in crime early and getting stuck. That’s why she’llrecruit a brand-new type of State’s Attorney in a newly fashioned Restorative Justice Bureau. That’s where juvenile, veterans, drug and mental health courts will work with government agencies to get people help, let them cross pollinate with various social service agencies and bring people back to society instead of being stuck in a life of crime. Learn more
As State’s Attorney, Eileen will create a new education and training curriculum that will offer the best opportunity in the country to learn how to be a great trial lawyer. Coupled with a newly fashioned restorative justice bureau, attorneys interested in a variety of government service opportunities will seek out opportunities to work in the criminal justice system in Cook County. There will be no better place to start a promising legal career. Learn more
If someone commits a crime with a gun in Cook County, they’ll meet head on with the best trained felony prosecution division in the country.Eileen will work with federal officials, our neighboring states and anyone they need to tackle the flow of illegal guns into Chicago. She’ll go after straw purchasers that sell those guns to criminals, and nobody who commits a violent offense is going back into the community to reoffend. Learn more
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