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CHICAGO — Police said two bank robbers remained at large Wednesday morning after pulling off a daring escape from downtown Chicago’s high-rise jail on Tuesday. The pair escaped by scaling down 15 floors of the building using a makeshift rope fashioned from bed sheets hanging from the bars of a cell window.
Authorities are now trying to figure when 37-year-old Joseph Banks and 38-year-old Kenneth Conley managed to flee from the jail cell they shared. Both men were accounted for a headcount around 10 p.m. Monday but they were reportedly missing during a 5 a.m. headcount Tuesday.
Investigators found a broken window and bars inside a mattress when they came upon the cell Tuesday morning, according to an FBI affidavit. Stuffed under blankets on two beds were clothing and sheets, shaped to resemble a body.