A search for a toddler feared to have been dropped in the Little Calumet River near Dolton was called off Friday night after diver teams combed waters for more than three hours and found nothing.
Seventeen passing motorists had called 911 around 3 p.m. to report they saw a man dangling a child over the water from the Bishop Ford Freeway overpass, said Sean Howard, a spokesman for the town of Dolton. The calls were “credible and consistent,” he said, but none of the callers reported seeing the man drop the child into the water.
Emergency response crews from Dolton and neighboring communities, as well as the Coast Guard and Illinois State Police, rushed to the scene where the steel bridge meets 138th Street.
“We did this as a precaution but, thankfully, we didn’t find anything,” said Dave DuVall, an engineer with the Dolton Fire Department who helped coordinate the search.
