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Clarence Page: After Smollett case, Kim Foxx’s ‘progressive’ approach faces more trial

As a Cook County, Illinois, jury last week found actor Jussie Smollett guilty of faking a racist and homophobic attack on himself, attention quickly turned to State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, the prosecutor who tried to let him off easy.

Politically speaking, she’s not alone. Handily reelected last year to a second term and the first Black woman to hold the office in Cook County, Foxx is widely viewed as one of

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