Prosecutor says she quit after demotion for dropping charges in ‘wilding’ case

A prosecutor with the Cook County state’s attorney’s juvenile division resigned last week because she says she was demoted and suspended without pay for dropping charges in a politically sensitive and flawed case. The case, which involved a downtown “wilding,” garnered negative media attention.

The term “wilding” entered Chicago’s lexicon in recent years to generally describe groups of youths who harass, rob and terrorize people in the Loop and on the Magnificent Mile, two of the city’s biggest tourism draws.