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CHICAGO<\/strong> – A Chicago<\/a> man is facing criminal charges for allegedly threatening to harm an Illinois state senator<\/a> via email, officials said.<\/p>\n Joseph Haggerty, 59, was charged with threatening a public official, a felony, according to Illinois State Police.<\/p>\n Joseph Haggerty (Illinois State Police)<\/strong><\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Haggerty turned himself in to ISP in Cook County and he was taken into custody and sent to Stephenson County.<\/p>\n State Sen. Andrew Chesney said he had received two threatening emails from Haggerty. In a press release, Chesney said Haggerty is an inspector for the City of Chicago. Chesney represents much of the northeastern part of the state, where Stephenson County is located.<\/p>\n The threatening messages were sent to Chesney\u2019s government email address on the day he participated in a press conference focused on immigration and President Donald Trump\u2019s proposal to send National Guard troops to Chicago.<\/p>\n “I want to express my sincere appreciation to the Illinois State Police Division of Criminal Investigations for their professionalism, diligence, and swift action throughout this case,” said Chesney in a statement. “Their commitment to public safety is exemplary, and I am grateful to know that Mr. Haggerty will be held accountable for these felony crimes. It is deeply troubling that an inspector for the City of Chicago issued violent threats against a sitting public official, and such conduct must be met with the seriousness it deserves.”<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The exact content of those emails was not clear.<\/p>\n News<\/a>Chicago<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Illinois Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO – A Chicago man is facing criminal charges for allegedly threatening to harm an Illinois state senator…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":405767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,76503,1818,50,80,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-405766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-il-politics","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115615559535276020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/joseph-haggerty.jpg\")
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