{"id":1015365,"date":"2026-08-21T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015365\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:49:17","slug":"body-found-in-chicago-river-by-amazon-facility-at-west-23rd-and-south-halsted-south-loop-chinatown-pilsen-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1015365\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Chicago River by Amazon facility at West 23rd and South Halsted South Loop, Chinatown, Pilsen: police department"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Friday, August 21, 2026 4:16PM<\/p>\n

A man’s body was pulled from the Chicago River on the city’s Southwest Side on Friday morning, police said.<\/p>\n

WLS<\/p>\n

CHICAGO (WLS) — A man’s body was pulled from the Chicago River on the city’s Southwest Side on Friday morning, police said.<\/p>\n

Chopper 7 was over the scene near West 23rd and South Halsted streets around 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

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

Crews could be seen staging in a nearby Amazon facility’s parking lot near the South Loop, Chinatown, and Pilsen neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Chicago police said the CPD Marine Unit found a man around 40-50 years old in the water.<\/p>\n

The man was pronounced dead on the scene, and his name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n

Area detectives are conducting a death investigation pending autopsy results.<\/p>\n

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

This is a developing story. Check back with ABC7 for updates.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Friday, August 21, 2026 4:16PM A man’s body was pulled from the Chicago River…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1015366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[406179,960,5463,11222,46098,5462,26073,32457,5386,1818,65061,11623,64454],"class_list":["post-1015365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-406179","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-breaking-news","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chicago-fire-department","tag-chicago-news","tag-chicago-river","tag-chinatown","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-pilsen","tag-south-loop","tag-water-search"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117134766384615953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}