A man charged with robbing a Lurie Children’s Hospital employee on a Blue Line train spent months on the streets and on the CTA despite facing charges in three counties, being wanted on multiple arrest warrants, and wearing an electronic ankle monitor — until concerned passengers tipped off police the old-fashioned way: they told officers he was smoking a crack pipe on the train.
Gregory Blount, 34, was ordered detained pending trial on an armed robbery charge this week by Judge Luciano Panici Jr. But his path to that courtroom took a circuitous, months-long route, leaving him wanted in Cook, DuPage, and Kane counties.
The robbery occurred at 7:45 a.m. on May 17 as the outbound train neared the Racine Blue Line station, prosecutors said. The victim, a 39-year-old Oak Park man, was riding home after an overnight shift at Lurie Children’s Hospital, his bike positioned in front of his legs…