Three-year-old uninjured following fall from second-story window

A 3-year-old Prospect Heights girl escaped serious harm Saturday after falling from a second-story apartment window, officials said.

The girl, whose name was not being released, was jumping on a bed next to an open window about 2 p.m. Saturday when she fell through a screen and plunged to the ground below, police said.

The girl landed on her feet in the grass, Prospect Heights police Cmdr. Al Steffen said. Police and emergency personnel responded to her home on the 600 block of Piper Lane, a three-story apartment building in the County Pines complex near Palatine Road.

The girl was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge but was released with no injuries other than sore feet from the landing.

Steffen described the fall as an accident, and no criminal investigation is pending.

It was the third case of a suburban child falling out of a window — and coming to no harm — this year. In June, a 2-year-old girl fell from a fourth-floor window of an Arlington Heights apartment building onto the grass below, after she climbed onto a bed next to a window and pushed out the screen.

And in May, a 1-year-old boy was playing with his older brother in an upstairs bedroom and fell out of a second-story window in Cary. He too was unharmed.