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Good Samaritan Hotel Doorman Helps Rescue a Baby

Where: 20 E. Delaware Place [map], Chicago, IL, United States, 60611

A while back, we wrote about how the Talbott Hotel in Chicago might benefit from some new personnel, after several guests had unpleasant experiences with "argumentative" staff.

Well, apparently a few positive changes have been made since then, as the hotel's doorman made headlines this weekend after helping to rescue a baby.

According to the Chicago Tribune, a couple who lives across the street from the hotel panicked on Saturday night when their baby's lips turned blue and started having breathing problems.

But the situation took a turn for the better when Talbott doorman Dwayne Neff spotted them across the street frantically trying to hail a cab. Neff immediately came to their aid, flagging down a nearby squad car (an ambulance would have taken too long), which then sped the couple and their struggling infant to Lurie Children's Hospital. Long story short, the baby turned out fine.

Meanwhile, Neff the doorman, described by the Tribune as a "spiritual man," who "believes the baby's rescue was a 'divine intervention' because everyone was seemingly at the right place at the right time," is now emerging as one of the story's heroes, for his quick thinking and pragmatism. In many respects, he might have been the difference between the baby's life or death.

He told the Tribune simply:

"I could sense the panic."

All in a day's work, we suppose.