A 43-year-old man died Wednesday morning after apparently drowning in Diversey Harbor, authorities said, although his official cause of death had not yet been determined.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the man as Luis Alberto Davila Vera, of the 1000 block of West 15th Street. An autopsy was expected to be performed Thursday to determine cause and manner of death.
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Vera had slipped and fell into the water with several other people at the Lincoln Park habor at 5:02 a.m. Wednesday — but he didn’t resurface, according to Chicago police. The Chicago Fire Department and officers from the police marine unit responded and pulled him out of the water sometime before 6 a.m.
Vera was taken via ambulance to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:54 a.m., police said.
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His death came a day before another body was pulled from Lake Michigan early Thursday. Also this week, a day before Vera’s death, officials in Whiting, Indiana, recovered the body of a Chicago man who had been missing two weeks after he and a friend went boating on Lake Michigan.
Dexter Trendell Sain, 36, was found about 200 yards offshore near the Whiting Lakefront Park. Sain drowned, according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office, which performed a forensic autopsy Wednesday.
Sain and Curtis Herron, also 36, had been missing since the morning of July 27, when they took out a new boat on Lake Michigan. Family members said the pair likely wanted to give the 30-foot Bayliner, named Cindy Ann, a test run as the longtime friends from Chicago had very little boating experience.
