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Two newborn babies were found dead at a Chicago daycare center on Thursday, police said, who were notified after a cleaning crew found the babies in a bathroom at the facility.
Chicago police said they responded to a daycare center in the 400 block of East Ontario, Streeterville, at about 6:59 p.m., where they found the newborns unconscious in a garbage bag.
“Chicago police are conducting a death investigation after two newborn girls were found dead in the bathroom of a daycare center in Streeterville,” police said in a statement Thursday night. “Dispatchers told responding officers the babies were in a garbage bag. The children were not breathing when first responders arrived.”
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The Chicago Police Department responds to a call near East Adams Street and South Wabash Avenue on Memorial Day, May 29, 2023. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The hospital said it was cooperating with the ongoing police investigation into the deaths.