{"id":611283,"date":"2026-02-23T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/611283\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:29:10","slug":"5-people-hospitalized-after-pepper-spray-released-during-fight-at-corliss-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/611283\/","title":{"rendered":"5 people hospitalized after pepper spray released during fight at Corliss High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were taken to the hospital on Monday, after someone released pepper spray during a fight inside Corliss High School in the Pullman neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Fire Department officials confirmed five people were taken to the hospital, but did not provide their ages or genders. Their conditions were not available.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to parents, Corliss Principal Evajamania Vondalisa Brown said there was a fight inside the school on Monday morning, when someone released pepper spray.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staff immediately de-escalated the situation and notified the CPS Office of Safety and Security and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to provide support,&#8221; Brown wrote. &#8220;Out of an abundance of caution, EMS was notified to ensure all impacted individuals were assessed and\/or treated, and their families have also been notified. <strong>All students and staff are safe.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chicago police said they could not immediately provide further information Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Brown did not provide any further information on the incident, citing privacy reasons, but said Corliss was &#8220;handling this matter in accordance with CPS policies to ensure the safety of our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The principal asked anyone whose child witnessed the fight or who has concerns about the incident to contact the school for support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people were taken to the hospital on Monday, after someone released pepper spray during a fight inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":611284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,16742,5386,1818,196834],"class_list":{"0":"post-611283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-public-schools","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-pullman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116122076152205381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611283","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=611283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}