Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez will fight a Mount Prospect woman’s effort to have a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the homicide of her son, who died after being involved in a drunken confrontation with Richard J. “R.J.” Vanecko, a nephew of former mayor Richard M. Daley.
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The number of suspects booked into the Cook County Jail has fallen in the last five years, but detainees on average are staying a week longer behind bars because of court delays, local law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
The father of an unarmed man shot and killed by a Chicago police officer over the summer called Wednesday for Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez to bring criminal charges against the officer.
Civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Christopher Cooper is running for Cook County state’s attorney, saying he wants to run an office just as focused on exonerating innocent people as convicting the guilty.
The Cook County Democratic Party’s slate-making meetings often have been an opportunity to highlight unity, but Thursday’s gathering of committeemen showed dissatisfaction with the re-election bids of State’s Atty. Anita Alvarez and Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown.
