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CHICAGO — Officials at a federal prison in downtown Chicago say they knew they had a problem when they came to work Tuesday—and saw a makeshift rope running down the side of the building.
The two convicted bank robbers have been missing and unaccounted for since Tuesday’s jail head count, and now the FBI is offering a $50,000 reward.
Chicago’s federal lock-up is an imposing high-rise that has defied escape for almost three decades. But somehow, two cellmates enlarged a six-inch wide window slit, removed its bars and, in the predawn darkness, lowered themselves at least 15 floors to freedom, using knotted bed sheets to repel down the building’s facade. A surveillance camera caught the pair getting into a downtown Chicago cab around 2:41 Tuesday morning.
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