As the Summit Police Department was pursuing a car for aggravated battery to a police officer in Chicago just before 2 a.m. on May 6, they requested additional units for backup. Forest Park police followed the offending car west on I-290 with help from Summit police and a Chicago police helicopter. Oak Brook police put spike strips on the road at Mannheim and the expressway, where the car popped its back tires and came to a stop. Police from Forest Park, Summit, Oak Brook, Chicago and the State Police surrounded the car and demanded its occupants get out several times, but they didn’t. Police broke the driver’s side window, and the passenger got out of the car. Police removed the driver from the car, who was taken into custody by Summit police.
Battery
Police responded to the CTA Blue Line terminus May 4 around 2:30 a.m. to remove someone from the property. There, a man was laying on the sidewalk outside the station, who told police K9 security broke his jaw. K9 staff denied the allegations and told police that the man was on a train that needed to be emptied but refused to exit several times. Staff said the man threw a Divvy bike toward them on the train and tried to punch them. Forest Park EMS arrived and took the man, who was complaining of leg pain, to Rush Oak Park Hospital. The man was charged with battery…