Crime & Safety

Man Dies in Cook County Jail

Autopsy scheduled for today.

A jail inmate accused of domestic abuse died in the Cook County Jail on Wednesday. An autopsy is scheduled today for Dennis P. Connors, 55, who was booked into the jail on May 6 and charged with aggravated domestic battery. He was pronounced dead at 3:50 a.m. at Cermak Hospital in the jail, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office

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