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Swimmer dies after being pulled from Montrose Harbor

Aug 10, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

(CHICAGO) A man died Sunday night after he was pulled from Lake Michigan on the North Side.

The Chicago Police Marine Unit responded at 4:55 p.m. Sunday to a man struggling in the water at Montrose Harbor at 501 W. Montrose Ave., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Carlos Juan Penaco, 26, was pulled from the water and taken to Weiss Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:47 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy Tuesday found he drowned, and his death was ruled an accident.

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Body pulled from Montrose Harbor

May 5, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

(CHICAGO) Police pulled a man’s body out of Lake Michigan Wednesday evening in Montrose Harbor in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side.

Police responded to a call of a body in the harbor near the 500 block of West Montrose Avenue about 4:30 p.m., according to Chicago Police.

The 35-year-old man was pulled out and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The medical examiner’s office withheld further information pending the notification of the man’s family.

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