Robert W. Fioretti

Robert W. Fioretti served as alderman for Chicago’s 2nd Ward from 2007 to 2015.¹ He has worked as an assistant Illinois attorney general and in City Hall’s corporation counsel office.¹ He was a partner at the law firm Roth Fioretti, where he practiced governmental law, complex litigation, and civil rights.² He later joined the Disparti Law Group.²

Fioretti has pointed to corruption and crime as reasons for needing to shake things up in the attorney general’s office.¹ In 2024, he said he would enforce the law as written and would not “coddle violent criminals.”³ He said he would work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove immigrants who have committed violent crimes.³ He also said he would pursue politicians who participate in corruption.³ To address illegal guns, he proposed working with federal and state agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.³ Regarding the Safe-T Act, he said judges need more discretion for pretrial detention in cases like aggravated battery on a police officer or illegal possession of a machine gun.³

His record includes representing the family of Baby Tamia in an adoption case that led to changes in Illinois adoption law.⁴ He says his efforts as alderman helped create more than 8,000 jobs in Chicago.²