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A city of Chicago employee has been accused of sending a pair of threatening emails to a northwest Illinois state lawmaker and told a police investigator that he had been “angry a lot lately, especially about politics,” authorities said.

Joseph Haggerty, 59, of Chicago, was charged with two felony counts of threatening a public official after authorities said he sent the emails in September to state Sen. Andrew Chesney, a conservative Republican from Freeport. The Illinois State Police, which conducted the investigation, announced the charges Tuesday. Haggerty remained in the custody of Stephenson County authorities, police said.

The charges come amid growing concerns from Democrats and Republicans nationwide that public officials and politic

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