In a career that ran from beat officer to Evanston police chief, William “Bill” C. McHugh considered one arrest as a “once in a lifetime moment,” he once said.
Carlos Alberto Torres, No.1 on the FBI’s most-wanted list, and eight other members of the revolutionary Puerto Rican FALN terrorist group were in a van parked a few blocks from the lake on Hamilton Avenue on a cloudless Tuesday, April 4, 1980.
The group, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional Puertoriquena, advocated Puerto Rican independence and had been connected with dozens of bombings in New York and Chicago…