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Portraits by Peter Bucks
Tributes to officers from the CPD Officer, Lodge 7 member and renowned artist
The legacy continues
n BY AMBER RAMUNDO
The timeline of unfor- gettable life events runs blue for Harold Bone.
March 1, 1982: The day he became a Chi- cago Police Officer. All it took was his first car chase that summer in the 018 for him to get hooked on the job.
“This is going to be fun,” he remembers say- ing to his field training officer with wide eyes and a pounding heart, moments after the pur- suit.
May 13, 1990: The day of one of his biggest arrests, when he and lifelong partner Frank Ortiz caught Chicago’s most wanted, who had murdered CPD Offi- cers Gregory Hauser and Raymond Kilroy. Harold and his partner put an end to the five- hour manhunt, which involved thousands of officers across the city. The suspect, Roman Chavez, was given a life sentence.
“I got on my hands and knees at 2 a.m., and I climbed underneath the porch,” Harold re- counts. “There he was, laying in the corner.”
July 10, 1991: The day Audrey Bone became his wife. It didn’t take long after meeting Au- drey in the Gang Crime North unit for Harold to fall in love with her. She knew what it was like to walk the thin blue line, but Audrey still never worried that her husband would come home safe.
“I think we both understood what we faced, and
it was never an issue,” notes Audrey, who became a
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HAROLD BONE
Star #4776
AUDREY BONE
Star #17566
BRIAN BONE
Star #4776
CPD officer in May 1985. Nov. 9, 1992: The day
his son Brian was born. Feb. 16, 2017: The day Brian became a CPD of-
ficer.
That last date in par-
ticular stands out as one of the proudest days of Harold’s life. Not to mention Audrey’s, as she was the one looking through the lens of the camera that captured the moment Harold pinned his own badge onto his son’s uniform with a tear in his eye.
4776 was more than just the badge number. It was a symbol of Har- old’s 31-year career in law enforcement, which provided him with so much joy and love for the job before he retired in 2013.
“I worked with and beside some of the brav- est officers in the coun- try,” Harold shares. “It was a rush being out there. Every night you could be in a different district, faced with a dif- ferent incident.”
Brian was about to discover that the badge also came with a repu- tation throughout the Department. During the
year since his Star Pinning Ceremony, Brian has often been stopped at law enforcement events by officers who not only recognize the badge number, but the face of the young man in uni- form.
“It’s crazy that so many people know my dad, even though there’s more than 10,000 people on
the job,” Brian notes.
Wearing the badge of a CPD legend who worked
on the Hostage Barricade and Terrorist (HBT) Unit, lat-