Eileen O'Neill Burke (left); Bob Fioretti (right) are both running for Cook County State's Attorney | Facebook / X
Eileen O'Neill Burke (left); Bob Fioretti (right) are both running for Cook County State's Attorney | Facebook / X
Bob Fioretti, Republican candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney, said Democrat candidate Eileen O’Niell Burke has been leading a “bait and switch” campaign since the start. Fioretti and O’Niell Burke are both on the general election ballot in November.
“Eileen Burke’s campaign has been a bait and switch job from the beginning,” Fioretti said in a post on X. “Depending on what audience she talked to in the primary, she either championed the misnamed Safe-T Act or criticized it, praised law enforcement, or rejected their support, pretended to be a law-and-order candidate or a ‘Kim Foxx Lite’ candidate, complimenting Foxx on her coddling violent criminal policies.”
“I look forward to vigorous debates in every part of the county leading up to the general election,” Fioretti said. “Voters deserve to hear about Ms. Burke’s deep machine connections, and her stated desire to keep Kim Foxx’s soft on crime policies.”
O'Neill Burke defeated primary opponent Clayton Harris by a margin of .02%, or roughly 2000 votes. She faces Republican Bob Fioretti and Libertarian Andrew Charles Kopinski in the general election on Nov. 5.
O'Neill Burke grew up on Chicago's Northwest Side. She graduated from St. Mary of the Woods Grade School, Marillac High School, the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and Chicago-Kent College of Law.
She spent her first ten years as a lawyer working as a Cook County Assistant State's Attorney (1991-2001), then worked for seven years as a criminal defense attorney in Cook County (2001-2008) before winning election as a Cook County Circuit Court Judge (2008-16) and then the Illinois Appellate Court, where she served on the First District bench until stepping down to run for State's Attorney last year.
Bob Fioretti was born in Chicago. He attended Mendel High School, University of Illinois, and Northern Illinois University.
Fioretti has served as a Chicago City Council alderman for Ward 2, and as the Senior Supervising Attorney of the General Litigation Division for the Corporation Counsel as part of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington’s administration. He also worked in private practice.
Fioretti advanced from the Republican primary on March 19 as the sole candidate.
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