Person dies after being pulled from water on Near South Side, police say
Chicago police said the marine unit responded to the scene where they recovered the victim, only identified as a male, from the water.
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Chicago police said the marine unit responded to the scene where they recovered the victim, only identified as a male, from the water.
The driver did not stop to aid the victim and left the scene in an unknown direction.
The body was found shortly before 3 p.m. in the Burlington Park Forest Preserve in Naperville.
Police were conducting a death investigation after a body was found in a forest preserve Saturday afternoon in Naperville.
Oswego police said a body found in the Fox River Monday evening has been identified as a 35-year-old man missing from Aurora, Illinois.
Chicago police said the body was recovered just before 11:30 a.m. in the 6500 block of South Promontory Drive.
The victim, only described as a man, was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity was not released.
Chicago police said the body of a male was found in the water unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Chicago police said the body of a male was found in the water unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Neighbors in the North Lawndale neighborhood in Chicago are shocked and confounded by what appears to be a grisly crime. A man was found dead inside a house that might have been set on fire intentionally Friday night. Sources said his body was partially dismembered.
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Just before 9:30 a.m., a cleanup crew was working on I-65 near Crown Point. While working along the ramp from U.S. 231 to southbound I-65, they found the body lying in the ditch.
The person was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.
The woman was found just before 8 p.m. on Wednesday in the 1500 block of West Warren Boulevard.
United Flight 202 left Chicago's O'Hare Airport the morning of Dec. 24, and the body was discovered upon landing at Hawaii's Kahului Airport. There is no information yet about the person's identity.
Before boarding his own flight at O'Hare, DePaul University transportation professor Joe Schwieterman said the chaos of holiday travel could have been a factor.
The airline said it is working with law enforcement on the investigation to discover how the person was able to enter the wheel well of the Boeing 787-10.
Investigators said someone walking in the area Wednesday morning saw a fire off the trail and found human remains near the Union Avenue trail head.
The person has not been identified.
The body was found in the 2800 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive on Nov. 24 just after 9 a.m.
Jacob Baer, who had autism, was playing outside when his parents lost sight of him Saturday, police said. His body was found in the West Twin River in Two Rivers on Sunday.
The body was found just after 9 a.m. in the 2800 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive.
A driver reported the body around 9 a.m. in the Busse Woods Forest Preserve near Higgins and Arlington Heights Road.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office is working to identify the woman and determine how she died.
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