A body has been recovered by police who were searching for a 29-year-old boater from Orland Park who disappeared in Lake Michigan overnight.
The body was pulled from the lake around 9:10 a.m. after the Chicago Police Marine Unit resumed their search, according to Lt. Maureen Biggane, spokeswoman for the Chicago police.
At 8:55 a.m., divers went to the GPS coordinates of where the man was spotted last night, and found the body within six minutes, Biggane said. The body has not yet been identified, she added.
The unit had suspended its search at about 2:30 a.m. for the man, who a witness said had fallen from a sail boat at about 10:15 p.m. near Navy Pier, about a half mile from the Chicago Harbor locks, police said. The witness told police he saw the man go under and not resurface.
Surface temperatures for Lake Michigan in the Chicago area were estimated at just below 70 degrees around the time of the accident, according to Coastwatch, which monitors water temperatures for the Great Lakes.
A systematic search yielded nothing. Marine Unit officers were initially working with the Fire Department to find the man, said police spokesman Officer Hector Alfaro. Fire officials ended their role in the search just before midnight, according to a fire department spokesman.
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