With 75.4% of expected votes counted, Democrat Mariyana T. Spyropoulos is projected to win the race for Cook County Circuit Court Clerk, defeating Republican Lupe Aguirre and Libertarian Michael Murphy. Spyropoulos has received 66% of the vote.
The Chicago Sun-Times called the race at 9:47 p.m., using data from the Associated Press.
In the Democratic primary, Spyropoulos ousted incumbent Iris Y. Martinez, the first Latina Cook County Circuit Court Clerk.
Spyropoulos is a former Assistant State’s Attorney from Chicago’s South Side with a law degree from UIC Law and an MBA from Loyola University Chicago. From 2015-19, she served as President of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board of Commissioners.
Spyropoulos believes the Clerk’s office suffers from a lack of transparency and failure to modernize. An advocate for government transparency, fiscal responsibility and environmental stewardship, she aims to “improve the use of technology in the office, bring the courts to the communities to increase access to justice, and make the office more transparent and ethical,” according to her website.
Aguirre, a former Chicago police officer and attorney, has received 27.5% of the vote. He does not appear to have a campaign website.
Murphy, who has received 6.5% of the vote, works in information technology systems administration. He centered his campaign around increasing transparency and accountability, and breaking down barriers preventing the Freedom of Information Act from being implemented within the office.
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