( CNN ) He would n't give his name . But the name tattooed on his neck -- Gertrude -- gave him away . That 's what Kankakee County , Illinois , Sheriff Tim Bukowski said Saturday about Kamron Taylor , the 23-year-old convicted murderer turned jail escapee until his arrest overnight in Chicago . Authorities around Illinois had been looking for Taylor since early Wednesday , when he jumped a correctional officer at Kankakee 's Jerome Combs Detention Center , then took off with the guard 's uniform and SUV . Surveillance video was the last officials saw of Taylor until just before midnight Friday , in Chicago . `` They saw a guy that matched the description , '' Bukowski said . `` And if you 're in law enforcement very long , you just get a feeling that something 's not right . ... I think that 's what happened . '' The suspect ran five city blocks before being tracked down , carrying a loaded handgun . He did n't go easily , refusing to identify himself . But when Chicago police contacted their law enforcement counterparts about 60 miles south in Kankakee County and told them about the tattoo , it became clearer who the man was . As Bukowski said of the Gertrude tattoo , `` It 's not a common name to have around your neck . '' Fingerprints later confirmed that Chicago police had indeed caught up with Taylor . While not offering details beyond that no one is thought to have driven him north nor did a tipster call to specify his location , Bukowski did say `` we have some ideas of where he went and how he ended up '' in the Windy City . It was n't immediately known either when Taylor will return to Kankakee County . But , when he does , the sheriff said the convict will likely face an attempted murder charge for his attack of the jail guard on top of his already extensive criminal history . Murderer overpowers guard , drives off in his SUV . Bukowski said he expects that Taylor will eventually be incarcerated outside Kankakee County , in part because `` you do n't want someone to raise '' the idea that guards there might somehow seek retaliation for the attack on one of their own . What the sheriff does n't want is for Taylor to go free ever again . This is a man , after all , who killed a man in a June 2013 botched robbery , had to be wrestled to the ground by bailiffs after his conviction in late February , then escaped jail after assaulting the guard . `` He 's not going to walk down the block again , I do n't believe , '' Bukowski said . The assaulted correctional officer remains in an Illinois hospital , where his condition has improved and he 's been able to talk to fellow authorities . This qualifies as very good news , given that authorities think Taylor `` believed that he had killed that correctional officer by strangling him '' around 3 a.m. ( 4 a.m . ET ) Wednesday , according to the sheriff . The guard was making his rounds when he was attacked from the side , then severely beaten and choked . Taylor then allegedly disrobed the guard , a military veteran and 10-year employee of the corrections department . The guard was left on the jail floor , going in and out of consciousness , for about 35 minutes before authorities -- concerned because the guard had n't responded to calls -- found him , the sheriff said . The alleged attacker then walked out of the jail , albeit only after having his identity checked by camera after pushing a button to notify `` master control '' that he wanted to leave . `` We think that because he had the officer 's uniform on , '' the sheriff explained this week , `` that 's how he was able to effectively escape . '' Now that Taylor is once again locked up , the focus has shifted more to how he left in the first place . Opining that the escape would n't have occurred `` if everybody had followed protocol , '' Bukowski said it 's believed the inmate was n't in his cell at lockdown . `` That 's where the big mistake happened , '' the sheriff said . `` Someone missed that . And from that point on , things broke down . '' CNN 's John Newsome contributed to this report .
The sheriff says a `` big mistake '' contributed to the inmate 's escape . 2 months after being convicted of murder , Kamron Taylor escaped an Chicago jail . He is captured by police 60 miles away in Illinois , authorities say .