Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s top aide has resigned less than a year into her tenure, although it wasn’t immediately clear what prompted the high-level shakeup.
O’Neill Burke said Anna Demacopoulos, her handpicked first assistant state’s attorney, was moving on to work in the private sector.
“I want to thank Anna Demacopoulos for her decades of service to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office and for the impact she has made during these last 8 months in my administration,” O’Neill Burke said in a statement.
Some prosecutors were caught off guard by the news Monday, unsure whether Demacopoulos had been fired or resigned from the office.
Demacopoulos stepped in to serve as Burke’s top assistant after she was elected at the end of last year. Before that, Demacopoulos spent 15 years as a circuit court judge in Cook County and over 20 years as a prosecutor in the state’s attorney’s office.
She declined to comment.
Those who emailed her were met with an auto-reply: “Thank you for your message, but I am no longer with the State’s Attorney’s Office.”
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