Chicago police investigating after 2 newborns discovered lifeless in youngster care heart lavatory on Northwestern Memorial Hospital campus

CHICAGO (WLS) — An investigation is ongoing after two child women have been discovered lifeless in a rest room at a daycare facility on the campus of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Streeterville Thursday night time.

The 2 new child women have been discovered unresponsive simply earlier than 7 p.m. Thursday within the 400-block of East Ontario Avenue, Chicago police mentioned. They have been taken to Lurie Youngsters’s Hospital, the place they have been pronounced lifeless.

Sources near the investigation advised ABC7 {that a} 29-year-old lady was present in a primary ground lavatory coated in blood. Somebody referred to as 911 and she or he was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital after an emergency medical state of affairs..

In an e mail despatched to patents, the corporate managing the daycare says the emergency resulted within the unanticipated supply of dual infants.

This occurred on the Bernice Lavine Early Childhood Training Heart. Sources mentioned janitorial companies then got here into the lavatory to scrub and located two new child women in a plastic bag on high of a cupboard.

They have been unresponsive and have been rushed to Lurie Youngsters’s Hospital the place they have been pronounced, sources mentioned.

Video from the scene reveals Chicago police at that daycare Thursday night time.

A Northwestern Memorial official mentioned that this was an emergency medical state of affairs involving a daycare worker, however added that no youngsters at that facility have been concerned with what occurred.

It is nonetheless unclear Friday morning whose youngsters these have been or what occurred earlier than first responders arrived.

ABC7 has reached out once more to Northwestern once more for any new info on the investigation. Nobody is in custody.