A man was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting and strangling a woman in the LaBagh Woods on the Northwest Side last week.
Detectives with the Forest Preserves of Cook County Police arrested John G. Lang, 45, for the assault. A Cook County judge on Saturday ordered detained until trial. Police said he had no home address on file.
The attack happened around 12:30 p.m. on May 23 in a heavily wooded area off-trail on the eastern side of LaBagh Woods, about 500 feet from the parking lot, according to forest preserves police.
The victim, a 29-year-old woman, was taken to Swedish Hospital and has since been released, police said.
“This was a shocking incident,” Adam Bianchi, superintendent of the forest preserve, said in a statement, “even more so because of the relative rarity of such attacks in the Forest Preserves.”
Lang faces counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated battery with strangulation.