A Northwest Side man who has been arrested five times this year is now charged with first-degree murder, accused of beating a homeless man to death in Belmont Cragin just two days after being removed from electronic monitoring.
Mateusz Mysliwiec, 35, was ordered jailed by Judge James Costello in connection with the killing of 51-year-old Tomasz Cholewa on the evening of October 2.
Cholewa arrived in the 5500 block of West Wellington around 9 p.m. that night and appeared to be drinking an alcoholic beverage, prosecutors said. Chicago police officers stopped him a few minutes later, but the encounter ended without further action. The officers noted that Cholewa had no visible injuries, prosecutors said. He later set up a makeshift bed on the sidewalk and went to sleep…