Crystal Lake man with a long history of violent offenses is charged with sexually attacking a woman inside a Millennium Park parking garage Monday morning, a crime that prosecutors say was stopped only by witnesses who beat the assailant with a water bottle and a wet floor sign.

Removing Brewer has opened another front in the mayor’s ongoing struggle for control of the city’s sister agencies and could lead to a protracted legal battle because Brewer is fighting the move with the apparent support of a majority of the board.

“Mayor Brandon Johnson’s latest purge of senior aides is as predictable as it is perilous…. Let’s be frank: This is not Mayor Johnson seeking “ideological alignment” to better serve the people of Chicago; it is Johnson systematically eliminating accountability.”

“There are hundreds of teams, like 500 of them just scattered around, acting crazy. There’s cops everywhere. It’s chaos,” said Jason Hale. Hale and his wife watched as hundreds of teenagers took over his neighborhood near 52nd and Dorchester. His car was among those left damaged in the aftermath.