Crime & Safety
Kids Hospitalized After Taking Unknown Drug at School
A classmate handed out pill and seven kids swallowed them at a Chicago school.

At least seven children at a South Side Chicago elementary school felt sick after swallowing a pill handed out by a classmate on Friday. All seven were hospitalized, according to police.
Students from Seward Communications Arts Academy Elementary School, at 4600 S. Hermitage Ave. in the Back of the Yards, took an unknown pill around 10 a.m.. Chicago Public Schools and police are investigating.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that two were taken to Stroger Hospital, two to Holy Cross, two to University of Illinois Hospital and one to Comer Children's Hospital. The children are in stable condition.
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