Afternoon Briefing: Kim Foxx won’t run for reelection next year

Good afternoon, Chicago.

After more than six years marked by historic criminal justice reforms, controversy over her prosecutorial policies, and the Jussie Smollett scandal, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said she won’t run for reelection next year.

“We find ourselves in a cycle of violence that continues because we haven’t addressed the root causes of violence, because we haven’t addressed the rift between communities and law enforcement and we haven’t addressed it because they’re hard truths that need to be told,” Foxx told the Tribune in a wide-ranging interview ahead of a City Club address where she was to make her choice official.

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