SWAT officers search the Metra stop in Tinley Park for two men who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago on Tuesday, December 18, 2012. | Al Podgorski~Chicago Sun-Times
Joseph "Jose" Banks escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center at 71 W. Van Buren St. Last week, Banks told U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, “You’ll hear from me!” after he was found guilty of bank robbery. | FBI photo
Kenneth Connelly who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center at 71 W. Van Buren St. | FBI photo
Employees at the federal jail in downtown Chicago figured something was wrong at 7 a.m. Tuesday when they came to work and saw a lengthy rope, made from bedsheets and other material, dangling from a narrow window 17 stories above the ground. When jail officers …
