{"id":876449,"date":"2026-06-18T18:32:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/876449\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:32:39","slug":"missing-child-7-found-dead-in-chicago-area-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/876449\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing child, 7, found dead in Chicago-area pond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill.<\/strong> &#8211; A 7-year-old child died Wednesday evening after being pulled unresponsive from a neighborhood retention pond in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/mchenry-county\/lake-in-the-hills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lake in the Hills.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>   Missing child found dead in pond <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Lake in the Hills police officers responded to a report of a missing child on Steeplechase Way shortly before 6 p.m.. Family members reported the child had last been seen a short time earlier.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">During a search of the area, a police officer located the child unresponsive in a nearby retention pond. The officer pulled the child from the water and immediately began life-saving efforts.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Paramedics with the Huntley Fire Protection District arrived within minutes and continued emergency medical care before taking the child to Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The child was later pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Lake in the Hills Police Department is investigating the incident in coordination with the McHenry County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities said foul play is not suspected.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No additional information about the child has been released pending the ongoing 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 Lake in the Hills Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/mchenry-county\/lake-in-the-hills\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lake in the Hills<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. &#8211; A 7-year-old child died Wednesday evening after being pulled unresponsive from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":876450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,6082,5386,1818,250088,24563,50,68],"class_list":["post-876449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-lake-in-the-hills","tag-mchenry-county","tag-news","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116772546000932636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876449","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=876449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}