Illinois
Burke, O’Brien vie for open seat in Illinois Supreme Court’s 3rd District
SPRINGFIELD — The race for the third District Illinois Supreme Courtroom seat options two skilled jurists in a contest that might decide partisan management of the courtroom for the subsequent a number of years.Incumbent Justice Michael J. Burke, a Republican who was appointed to the courtroom in 2020 to fill a emptiness created by the retirement of former Justice Robert Thomas, is in search of a full 10-year time period. He faces Democrat Mary Kay O’Brien, a justice on the third District Courtroom of Appeals, who has spent practically 19 years on the …