WGN Radio Employee Arrested After New Year's Fight With Ex-Boyfriend

By Anna Deem in News on Jan 2, 2010 8:00PM

Elizabeth Grattan, a WGN radio employee, was arrested early Friday after using her fist to break a window and enter the apartment of an ex-boyfriend during a disturbance in the Old Town neighborhood, police said. According to her Web site, Grattan has also done radio production, writing, and on-air work for Clear Channel Research & Development, Sirius Satellite Radio, and WGN Radio.

Grattan was arrested at 5:35 a.m. on Friday in the 1500 block of Wieland Avenue, police said. She is scheduled to appear in Misdemeanor Court (Br. 29), 2452 W. Belmont Ave. on Jan. 25. A man who lives at the Wieland address called 911 after Grattan allegedly broke the front window of his apartment and climbed inside, police said. She argued with him and appeared to be "highly intoxicated" when Near North District police arrived on the scene. Grattan had blood on her hands and minor cuts from climbing through the broken glass, and was also allegedly pulling away from officers who were trying to arrest her.

After the incident occurred, Grattan addressed it in her personal blog. She claims she was invited to her ex-boyfriend's New Year's Eve party and stayed for awhile, until she realized he was in bed with another woman. Grattan threw a drink in his face when she saw him with the other woman, she said on her blog. "With that, he picked me up and carried me and threw me out his front door," Grattan writes. "Hitting the brick wall near his steps. With no coat. In temperatures near zero. My wallet was inside. My phone. My things. And they wouldn't give them to me. So, I like any other woman that passionate, disillusioned and angry and freezing did what I needed to do (or thought at least). I broke his window."

Grattan also claims that two of the three things she was charged with are "totally incorrect" and said police should not have been called to the party. [Chicago Sun-Times]