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Preckwinkle said Tuesday night she looks “forward to all the good work that lies ahead” as her opponent, Richard Boykin a former Cook County Board commissioner conceded the race: “The voters have spoken, and I stand by their decision.”
A trio of Cook County incumbents swept Tuesday’s Democratic primary races, including first-term assessor Fritz Kaegi, who survived a heated and expensive battle against an upstart challenger who failed to make the case that the current administration was driving out business.