{"id":579932,"date":"2026-02-10T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/579932\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:29:11","slug":"chicago-rideshare-driver-passenger-get-sick-from-suspicious-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/579932\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago rideshare driver, passenger get sick from suspicious package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/x13fopfqzlszx87f.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago rideshare driver, passenger get sick from suspicious package\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Chicago police and fire crews responded to a report of a possible hazardous materials incident Monday night after a rideshare driver and passenger became ill in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/logan-square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Logan Square<\/a> neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Officers were called to the 2200 block of North Monticello Avenue just before 10 p.m. after the driver and a passenger reported feeling unwell while inside a vehicle, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Investigators learned the driver had earlier picked up a package near the 3600 block of West Palmer Street.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Chicago Fire Department personnel treated both individuals at the scene before transporting them to Norwegian Hospital, where they were listed in fair condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">A HazMat team was called as a precaution, and officers recovered the package from the vehicle. No additional injuries were reported, and the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/logan-square\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Square<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; Chicago police and fire crews responded to a report of a possible hazardous materials incident Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":579933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,74080,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-579932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-logan-square","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116046578765245745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}