J.B. Pritzker Makes New Friends in Low Places
Those are just a couple of the details revealed in a new report issued as part of Beach’s campaign to overhaul the county’s ankle monitor program and improve its transparency.Tuesday’s report shows that of the 244 missing defendants, about 24% were on electronic monitoring for domestic-related charges. Nearly 15% of them have slipped away while awaiting trial. And 27% of people charged with battery have gone AWOL, too.
- ▪Those are just a couple of the details revealed in a new report issued as part of Beach’s campaign to overhaul the county’s ankle monitor program and improve its transparency.Tuesday’s report shows that of the 244 missing defendants, about
- ▪Nearly 15% of them have slipped away while awaiting trial.
- ▪And 27% of people charged with battery have gone AWOL, too.
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J.B. Pritzker Makes New Friends in Low Places Beege Welborn 8:40 PM | July 14, 2026 AP Photo/Erin Hooley This is one of those Chicago stories that are so chef's kiss...Chefs Kiss French Chef GIFfrom Chefs Kiss GIFs...that you can't help but savor every morsel of it, containing, as it does, all the elements of Illinois' wretched social stew. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); And all on the Fourth of July.Cook County, Chicago, has a shoplifting problem, and, by extension, a problem keeping track of the shoplifters they do arrest and pretend to try to prosecute.Actually, Cook County just has problems.
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