CHICAGO — A body was found in Lake Michigan early Friday, police said.
Police responded to a call of a body in the water at 9:20 a.m. at Foster Avenue beach, said Officer Janel Sedevic, Chicago Police spokeswoman. They are recovering the body, Sedevic said.
The dead man was described as a black man in his 30s, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The man who called police said he was taking his regular stroll through the beach and down a pier when he noticed what appeared to be a shirtless man floating in the water on the north side of the pier, where divers eventually pulled the body.
Two women who said they'd been sitting near the pier all morning said they were approached by the man who discovered the body.
One of the women said the man was on his cell phone and was asking for her help in communicating to police there was a "dead body" in the lake.
Shortly after, police arived and walked with the man down to the pier, she said, before detectives and divers eventually came to the scene.
The crowded beach was full of onlookers on the hot, sunny Friday afternoon, as two police divers pulled the body out of the water.
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