CHICAGO (WLS) -- Joseph Kromelis - the famed "Walking Man" of downtown Chicago has died nearly seven months after an attacker set him on fire, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said Sunday.

Sister Paul Wilson has seen a lot of human suffering in her nearly six decades as a nun. So when she met Joseph Kromelis, who suffered horrific burns after being set on fire as he slept on a Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The man charged in the death of Joseph Kromelis, the famed "Walking Man" of downtown Chicago, pleaded guilty Thursday as part of a plea deal. Joseph Guardia was sentenced to 47 years ...

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Joseph Kromelis, known as “The Walking Man” or “The Walking Dude,” has been released from the hospital about four months after he was set on fire while sleeping on Lower Wabash Avenue. Doctors ...

CHICAGO — A Melrose Park man avoided trial and was sentenced to 47 years in prison after pleading guilty in the December 2022 death of Chicago’s “Walking Man.” Judge Timothy Joyce sentenced Joseph ...

You could get a glimpse of Walking Man almost any day in Chicago: a tall, lean man with long, bushy hair, sharp features, and a wide moustache, who wore a blazer to stride, more than stroll, along ...