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Body Found in Car Near Busy Wicker Park Corner May Have Been There for Days

By Alisa Hauser | October 17, 2016 11:56am | Updated on October 17, 2016 1:06pm
 The body of a man was found Monday in a car parked in a Walgreen's parking lot at
Man's Body Found in Parked Car in Wicker Park
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WICKER PARK — The body of a man was discovered inside of a parked car in a Walgreen's parking lot on Monday morning and may have been there through the weekend.

Around 9:30 a.m. Monday, the windshield of a Volvo station wagon was draped with a white sheet and the car was surrounded by crime scene tape. The parked car faces the busy intersection of Milwaukee and Wolcott, where hundreds of pedestrians and cars go by daily.

Officer Laura Amezaga, a Chicago Police spokeswoman, said that the man, in his 20s, was found dead inside the car and that police responded at 9:05 a.m. Monday. Area North Detectives are investigating.

Amezaga said that a person saw the dead man in the car and called 911.

Though a sign warns that the parking lot is only for Walgreen's customers and that stays are not to exceed 30 minutes, the car was parked there all weekend, according to workers at the drug store.

Chanel Martin, a Google Express worker who operates a kiosk inside of the Walgreen's, said that on Saturday, she was looking for a co-worker who was parked in the lot during a break and she peeked into almost every car except the one that the man was later discovered in.

"I wish I would have looked in that car and seen him sooner, maybe I could have helped," Martin said, adding that people in general "need to be more aware" [of each other].

A police source said the man appeared to have been in the car for more than a day.

Becky Schlikerman, a spokeswoman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, said the man's identity was not to be released at this time and that an autopsy is pending.

Walgreens spokeswoman Emily Hartwig-Mekstan said the company is cooperating with the police investigation, but declined to comment further.

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