An 18-year-old woman escaped a would-be kidnapper during St. Patrick’s Day weekend festivities on the Near North Side, police said.
The woman was walking on a sidewalk in the when a man exited a vehicle and grabbed her by the arms shortly after noon on Saturday, Chicago police said in a statement.
The man placed her in the vehicle and, as the vehicle began to move, the woman opened a door and ran off, police said.
The incident happened near Wells and Scott streets, just north of Division Street, police said.
The woman ran several blocks north to the Walgreens at North Avenue and Wells Street in Old Town, where someone called an ambulance, according Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
Paramedics took her to St. Joseph Hospital, where she was treated for a panic attack, Langford said. Police said the woman reported no injuries.
The suspect fled south in a black four-door Ford, according to an incident report. He was about 30 years old and wore reading glasses, the report states.
No arrests have been made.