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Our Sunday report detailed Talley’s lengthy criminal history and tracked the judicial decisions that allowed a seven-time violent felon with two pending violent crime cases to be on the streets.
Talley first appeared in a CWB Chicago story in November 2017 after he robbed two men as they walked through an alley in the 3200 block of North Clark Street in Boystown. Talley demanded the victims’ property and battered the two men, ages 20 and 23, officials said. He was also charged with displaying a firearm and robbing three men as they stood on the Red Line platform at Grand around 12:30 p.m. on October 21, 2017. Talley, who lived at the Lawrence Hall youth center at 4833 North Francisco at the time, eventually pleaded guilty to four counts of armed robbery and received four concurrent seven-year sentences from Judge Catherine Haberkorn, according to court records. In July 2021, he was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm while on parole. A grand jury returned a true bill for Class X armed habitual criminal, but prosecutors under Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx agreed to let Talley plead that down to being a felon in possession of a firearm with a three-year sentence. Less than a year after he entered that plea, Illinois State Police troopers arrested Talley for leading them on a lengthy chase in a stolen car, according to court records. He once again feigned the need for medical assistance so he could go to a hospital, law enforcement sources said. Talley remained in jail for a year after state troopers arrested him, picking up another felony along the way for attacking a Cook County jail correctional officer, until Judge John Lyke denied a state petition to continue Talley’s detention and released him on electronic monitoring in the fall of 2024, court records show. Within three months, Talley was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery and he stopped showing up for his felony cases, prompting Lyke to sign an arrest warrant in February 2025, according to court records. The police found Talley in April 2025 — but only after he allegedly carjacked a woman at gunpoint and subsequently robbed another man at gunpoint, too. On the afternoon of April 18, 2025, two masked men confronted a 25-year-old woman in the 4700 block of South Calumet and took her 2019 Jeep Cherokee. Minutes later, the hijacked car rolled up on a man in the 6300 block of South Morgan. Two masked men got out of the vehicle, pointed a gun at him, and took his valuables, according to a CPD report. CPD’s hijacking task force located the stolen Jeep and arrested Talley after he bailed out of the driver’s seat and hid under a porch, according to a police arrest report. Talley was taken to a hospital for treatment because he told officers that he “swallowed multiple bags of crack cocaine,” the report said. Judge Luciano Panici, Jr. ordered Talley jailed as a public safety threat on the carjacking and robbery charges. Panici also jailed him on the failure-to-appear warrant Lyke signed months earlier.
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