Anita Alvarez

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Anita Alvarez

Age: 53

Occupation: State’s attorney, Cook County

Last year she seemed to defend police coercion in a disastrous 60 Minutes interview and shrank from charging Richard Vanecko, the nephew of Richard M. Daley (No. 52), with manslaughter—decisions that tarnished her once-rising star.

Photograph: BRIAN CASSELLA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE