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Truck Yard Workers Find Body In Semitrailer In Brighton Park, Police Say

By Kelly Bauer | August 24, 2017 1:25pm | Updated on August 25, 2017 11:45am

CHICAGO — Workers at a truck yard found a badly decomposed human body inside a semitrailer in Brighton Park on Wednesday, police said.

At 10:10 a.m., the workers found the person's body in the trailer in the 2000 block of West 43rd Street, police said. The body was "in a severe state of decomposition," police said.

Because of the decomposition, investigators were unable to determine whether the person was a man or woman or what the person had died from, police said.

The case is being treated as a death investigation.