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CHICAGO: In March, Kim Foxx beat her former boss, Cook County Prosecutor Anita Alvarez, in a landslide to become the Democratic nominee for state’s attorney. Alvarez had been under fire for her lackadaisical handling of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan

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