Authorities pulled a body from Lake Michigan Tuesday night.
Police said that the body of an unidentified man who they believe was around 30-years-old was taken out of the water around 9:30 p.m. at the 700 block of East 31st Street, where the 31st Street Beach and Harbor are located.
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The Chicago Fire Department’s Marine unit had responded to a person in distress, police said. The man was transported to University of Chicago hospital and pronounced dead.
Police said detectives are investigating the death.
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The recovered body comes after the bodies of four people washed up along the shores of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan in early April.
The city saw a record number of drownings in Lake Michigan in 2020, wen 56 people drowned there.