John G. Bartholomew was 38 years old when his life was taken by gunfire. A Chicago Police Department Police Officer, he died on April 25, 2026, while guarding a hospitalized suspect at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Chicago. The facts are stark, but they cannot measure the human cost of a life suddenly ended. Behind the uniform was a person whose absence now reaches beyond a hospital room and a department roster. His death leaves an empty place in the Chicago Police Department and in the community he served, while the people who loved him are left to carry a loss that cannot be repaired.…

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