O’Neill Burke builds on her lead over Harris as vote count for state’s attorney enters second week

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O’Neill Burke builds on her lead over Harris as vote count for state’s attorney enters second week

For the first time since Election Day, retired Appellate Judge Eileen O’Neill Burke has widened her lead over university lecturer and former government official Clayton Harris III in the hotly contested Democratic primary race for Cook County state’s attorney. The results came after another taxing day of ballot processing, as the Chicago Board of Elections and Cook County clerk added another 2,257 Democratic votes to the unofficial count. By th…