4-Year-Old Girl Survives 10-Story Fall from Chicago Apartment Window
Mar. 15, 2025A 4-year-old girl survived a fall from a 10th-floor apartment window on Chicago’s South Side, authorities said.
The child fell from the Spring Grove Apartments, a 13-story building in the 4500 block of South Drexel Boulevard in Bronzeville on Tuesday, March 11, shortly before 11 a.m. local time, the Chicago Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement.
The victim, who has not been identified at this time, suffered a head injury and was transported to Comer Children’s Hospital in fair condition, police said. No other injuries were reported.
No further information regarding her condition was available.
A resident in the building told the outlet that the apartment windows tend to be difficult to open, but she is aware of the potential risk for small children.
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“I make sure they don’t go towards the window because it’s scary living in a high-rise building and you got kids and they like to be curious and it’s kind of scary,” the woman told WGN.
In July 2022, a 3-year-old boydied after fallingfrom the Lake View Towers Apartments, located in the Uptown area on the city’s Far North Side.
The toddler was inside a residence on the 18th floor of a building in the 4500 block of N. Clarendon around 7 p.m. on July 19 “when he fell through a screen window onto a parking garage below,” the Chicago Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE at the time.
The boy was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital but did not survive.
source: people.com
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