- Shermain Miles read her Bible on the train, ignoring the wind’s destruction outside as she returned to Chicago on Monday and prepared to pick up the pieces of her own shattered life.
For those who had been dreading her return to a city where she has amassed 396 arrests since 1978, Miles said: “If they can find it in their hearts to forgive me . . .”
The metal doors to Logan Correctional Center in Downstate Lincoln opened for Miles on Monday, after she served almost one year for her latest tangle with the law: assaulting Ald. James Cappleman (46th) two summers ago in Uptown.
A white plastic cross dangled from Miles’ neck as an Illinois Department of Corrections officer escorted her to the Chicago-bound Amtrak train at the platform in tiny Lincoln.
Place your bets - we give her 60 days and she'll rack up number 397, and IDOC won't even revoke her parole. The neighborhood is betting our way already:
- Edgewater florist Rick Flinn predicts that will be soon.
“Oh dear,” he said. “That will be nice for winter. She’ll be up there lying on the sidewalk in the snow.”
You know, if she was convicted on even 50% of her cases and served a minimum of 1 year, she'd never be a problem again. Keep voting for democrats Edgewater.
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