A horse escaped from a Morton Grove equestrian center Saturday evening and was later found roaming the streets of Skokie.
“We had this brown horse running through our town,” Skokie Police Officer Eric Swaback said.
Swaback said police received a report of a horse on the loose at about 5:45 p.m. Saturday. The animal was located near the Old Orchard Mall at the intersection of Skokie Boulevard and Old Orchard Road, he said. Employees from the Glen Grove Equestrian Center, which is near the intersection of Golf Road and Harms Road in Morton Grove, escorted the horse, which was unharmed, back to the center with assistance from police, Swaback said.
“It was a horse staying here for a few days in transit, and she didn’t want to be here,” said Cindy Baffer, a manager at the Glen Grove Equestrian Center. She said the horse is not used to being transported and “she just went for a walk and had no idea where she was going.”
An escaped equine is an unusual occurrence in the area, Swaback said.
“In my 22 years here, I’ve never heard of it,” he said.
Lee V. Gaines is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.