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Campanelli’s office represented a 12-year-old boy who was ordered confined in September 2018 by a Cook County judge, despite an ordinance passed by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that barred the custodial detention of preteenagers.—Emily Hoerner, chicagotribune.com, 8 Nov. 2019
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