Chicago police have arrested Sean Popps a dozen times this year, almost all of them for allegedly trespassing or damaging property on or near Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Streeterville campus. That string of cases follows seven arrests in 2024, again mostly on or near the hospital grounds. Records show he was also arrested at the facility twice in 2020, twice in 2021, once in 2022, and once in 2023.
But the 39-year-old will not be returning to Northwestern for a little while. That’s because a judge ordered him jailed after prosecutors accused him of violently attacking a physician on an elevator at the hospital’s parking garage.
The case marks yet another instance in which Cook County’s criminal justice system cycled a repeat offender back onto the street only to see the behavior violently escalate…