Meet the Staff

Mark Hitt received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, with a minor in Political Science, from Elmhurst College in 1993.  He graduated from DePaul University, College of Law in February 1997.  Mark began his career in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in 1998, leaving in 2011.  In that time period, he tried hundreds of motions and felony cases in front of juries, as well as Judges – cases ranging from traffic matters to 1^st Degree Murder cases involving gang members.

From there, Mark spent nearly seven years with the City of Chicago, as a supervising investigator with the Independent Police Review Authority, reviewing investigations of excessive force and racial bias alleged to have occurred by sworn officers.  As a supervising investigator, he also responded to scenes of police-involved shootings and conducted preliminary investigations and evidence collection in those matters.

After practicing in the fields of criminal defense and family law, Mark returned to prosecution, here in Grundy County.  His focus is on felony offenses, along with misdemeanor and felony domestic battery cases.

Daniel Weiss received his Juris Doctorate from Northern Illinois University Law School.  After a short stint as a prosecutor in Mason County, Decatur, Illinois, Mr. Weiss spent thirty years as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Cook County.  As an Assistant in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, Mr. Weiss worked numerous assignments prosecuting traffic, misdemeanors and felonies.  For much of his time in Cook County, Mr. Weiss worked in the Special Prosecutor’s Bureau Cold Case Murder/Organized Crime Unit where he prosecuted homicide, solicitation for murder and human trafficking cases.