{"id":2472,"date":"2026-03-08T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/2472\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:58:16","slug":"body-found-in-chicago-river-in-lincoln-square-near-foster-and-virginia-avenues-death-investigation-underway-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/2472\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Chicago River in Lincoln Square near Foster and Virginia avenues; death investigation underway: police department"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team \"WLS<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 7, 2026 11:50PM<\/p>\n

\"Body<\/p>\n

CHICAGO (WLS) — A death investigation is underway after a man’s body was pulled from the water near River Park on the city’s North Side on Saturday morning, Chicago police said.<\/p>\n

Police said officers responded to a marine distress call in the Lincoln Square neighborhood’s 5200-block of North Virginia Avenue around 7:20 a.m.<\/p>\n

ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n

The Chicago Fire Department pulled the 52-year-old man’s body from the Chicago River, and he was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.<\/p>\n

How the man died was not immediately clear. His identity was not immediately released.<\/p>\n

Authorities did not immediately provide further information.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Saturday, March 7, 2026 11:50PM CHICAGO (WLS) — A death investigation is underway after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2322,2314,2319,2318,2315,2317,2313,2316,8,2320,2321,9,2312,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-2472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-2322","9":"tag-body-found","10":"tag-body-found-in-chicago-river","11":"tag-body-in-chicago-river","12":"tag-chicago-news","13":"tag-chicago-police","14":"tag-chicago-river","15":"tag-death-investigation","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-lincoln-square","18":"tag-lincoln-square-chicago","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-river-park","21":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116195328158403149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}