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Daring prison escape leads to massive manhunt in Chicago
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Inmates considered armed and dangerous use bed sheets to rappel about 20 stories to freedom
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- Date Dec 19, 2012
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I carefully landed in -- Chicago -- St.
Joe and Dave banks.
And Connolly made a great -- stuffing their prison beds with clothing and -- to resemble a body.
And squeezing narrow windows in the Metropolitan Correctional Center -- time -- jail.
The two scaled about twenty stories with a knotted rope or -- -- are.
Police helicopters and canine units swarmed the area.
Both men were wearing orange jumpsuit but police believe they quickly changed.
Swat team stormed at least one -- in the suburb south of Chicago.
Evidence suggests that both suspects had been at the home just hours earlier residents are under it.
-- -- started out well thought out.
We'll find out stated strategy of -- got a lot of courage.
Of one.
Both men are facing hefty prison sentences for bank robbery.
Connolly has pleaded guilty for robbing won his fellow escape be convicted of robbing two.
Pony Chicago's going on in Chicago.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center is one of the only skyscraper lock -- in the world.
Experts say it's triangular shaped was meant to make it easier to guard.
In Los Angeles Anita Vogel Fox News.