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CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was elected in 2016 mainly because of anger that the prosecutor she ousted had waited a year to charge a Chicago police officer in the killing of black teenager Laquan McDonald. Then Foxx, who is a survivor of sexual assault as a child, grabbed national attention […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Wednesday defended the decision by her staff to drop charges that “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett staged a racist, anti-gay attack in January. Foxx recused herself before Smollett was charged last month because she had discussed the case with a Smollett family member. The case was […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors still insist Jussie Smollett faked a racist, anti-gay attack on himself in the hopes that the attention would advance his acting career. The “Empire” star still says he was assaulted by two men late at night in downtown Chicago. But with little explanation, authorities on Tuesday abruptly dropped all charges against […]

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UPDATE 2/20 at 7:58 p.m.  Multiple reports are now saying Smollett has been officially charged with felony disorderly conduct by the Cook County State Attorney’s Office. UPDATE 2/20 at 7:16 p.m.  Multiple reports now say Jussie Smollett is a suspect in a false attack story that has lit up social media in the past weeks. […]

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Foxx snagged the election from republican candidate Christopher E. K. Pfannkuche.

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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago area’s likely next top prosecutor handily unseated an incumbent on a wave of frustration over police shooting investigations, but even with that support she’d take over the job facing immense challenges. First-time candidate Kim Foxx ousted Anita Alvarez in this week’s Democratic primary, as the re-election bid of the two-term […]

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CHICAGO (AP) — Voters ousted the Chicago area’s top prosecutor Tuesday, backing Democratic primary challenger Kim Foxx in a campaign dominated by questions about Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s handling of the shooting death of a black teenager at the hands of a white police officer. Foxx, a onetime chief of staff to the […]