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On August 8, 2025, in Cook County’s Circuit Court, a petition was filed that carried the weight of an ending. Tara Murdoch, forty-two, brought her marriage to Jason Murdoch, fifty, into the realm of dissolution. Through her attorneys at Reed, Centracchio & Associates, LLC, Tara asked the court to unbind what had been tied in Chicago on December 29, 2020.
It was a marriage without children of its own. Jason’s two children from a prior union stood outside the lines of this case. The home Tara had bought before vows were spoken—on South Spaulding Avenue—remained hers alone, set apart as non-marital, untouched by the shifting tides of this petition.
The words in her filing are steady, deliberate: “irreconcilable differences,” “irretrievable breakdown.” There had been attempts at reconciliation, but the petition tells us those efforts had withered, that the soil was too barren for anything new to take root. Both husband and wife are declared able to carry their own burdens, to shoulder their debts, to provide for themselves without the other. Maintenance is denied on both sides. Each will walk away with property deemed theirs, debts marked in their own name, the dividing line clear and final.
Yet beneath the clean edges of legal speech rests the ache of something that did not last. What began in winter’s promise of 2020, in the city they both served as officers, arrives in late summer of 2025 as a document asking for release, and for peace.
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