Boy, 3, dies after falling from 18th floor of Chicago high-rise

CHICAGO - A Chicago family is grieving after a 3-year-old boy fell to his death out of an 18th-story window Tuesday night on the North Side.

There was sadness all around the Uptown apartment complex on Wednesday.

Chaise Binion was inside a residence in the north tower of the complex in the 4500 block of North Clarendon Avenue around 6:40 p.m., Chicago police said.

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FOX 32 News learned the screened windows of the building apparently open to the inside but somehow, the boy fell through a window on the 18th floor and onto the third floor of a parking garage between the two towers.

Binion was taken in critical condition to Illinois Masonic Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later, officials said.

Neighbors saw him and were very upset.

"It was just tragic. I mean to me, little kids shouldn't be near an open window anyway. I mean, I don't know what the circumstances was or how it may have happened," one neighbor said.

Firefighters, police and building inspectors remained on the scene for several hours Tuesday night looking for code violations in the building.

Officials warned everyone to exercise extreme caution with children around windows on warm weather days.

Binion's death was ruled an accidental fall, according to the medical examiner’s office.

A spokesperson for the Department of Buildings said there were "no calls for service relevant to the accident" and there were no pending code enforcement actions against the property.

"We are deeply saddened by the tragic accident that claimed the life of three-year-old Chaise Binion," the spokesperson said.

No further details were immediately available.