Search for missing teen swimmer in Lake Michigan continues
A search for a teen swimmer in Lake Michigan near Winnetka resumed Wednesday morning, but there was still no sign of him.
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A search for a teen swimmer in Lake Michigan near Winnetka resumed Wednesday morning, but there was still no sign of him.
A search for a teen swimmer in Winnetka concluded for the day around noon on Tuesday after a rescue team responded to three people in the water during dangerous lake conditions.
CFD Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt confirmed the member was swimming with family while off the lakefront.
Search efforts happened as north winds with 3-to-6-foot waves created dangerous rip currents in the area.
"In total darkness and zero visibility the victim was rescued by our dive team in cardiac arrest," Fire Department officials said in a tweet.
Luke Laidley, a 9/11 survivor, jumped off a boat to save a child who fell in the water while tubing.
A man has died after pulled from Lake Michigan in north suburban Winnetka on Tuesday afternoon, when he went into the water to help a group of kids.
Pool Saturday the park district offered a message, extending heartfelt condolences to the family who lost their loved one.
We are told the girl came to the water park with at least three adults – but somehow, she went underwater before the lifeguards tried saving her. CBS 2's Jermont Terry reports.
The warning is to stay alert – especially if you go into the lake when no lifeguards are on duty.
The rescue happened at Porter Beach in Porter, Indiana.
A witness reported it appeared Onyx Torres was caught in a current that pulled him away from shore.
Onyx Torres was swimming offshore from Northwest Indiana while his grandparents watched, when authorities said a wave took him. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
A Kenosha man is dead after he jumped into the water channel in Unincorporated Lake Villa Sunday morning.
CBS 2 spoke Tuesday with his family, who remembered Zach as a baseball lover who was majoring in economics at Washington University.
CBS 2 heard from the heartbroken family of a North Shore man who died while trapped in a type of quicksand on a trip to Alaska. Zachary Porter, 20, of Lake Bluff, was walking on mud flats along the Alaskan coast on Sunday. He sank up to his waist.
The drowning was the latest tragedy at Turnagain Arm, a 48-mile-long estuary in Alaska known for its dangerous mud flats made of silt created by glacier-pulverized rocks.
Water safety on Lake Michigan will be the focus in Orland Park Wednesday.
Josiah Brown's aunt is accused of pushing him into Lake Michigan at Navy Pier.
Josiah's father, Dantrell, posted on Instagram that Josiah's heart will be going to a 2-year-old in Canada.
Josiah Brown died Sunday at Lurie Children's Hospital, six days after Fire Department divers pulled him out of the lake in critical condition.
Josiah Brown died Sunday at Lurie Children's Hospital, six days after Fire Department divers pulled him out of the lake in critical condition. His aunt is accused of pushing him into the lake.
