{"id":270071,"date":"2025-10-01T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270071\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:36:13","slug":"chicago-police-conducting-death-investigation-after-90-year-old-womans-body-pulled-from-mckinley-park-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/270071\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago police conducting death investigation after 90-year-old woman&#8217;s body pulled from McKinley Park lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Body pulled from lagoon on Chicago&#8217;s Southwest Side <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4e0a2b845e0aac6e332d908086a2d9ed.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/body-pulled-from-lagoon-on-chicagos-southwest-side\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Body pulled from lagoon on Chicago&#8217;s Southwest Side<\/p>\n<p>          00:23<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicago police have launched a death investigation after the body of a 90-year-old woman was pulled from a lagoon in McKinley Park on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the elderly woman was found unresponsive in the water in the 2200 block of West Pershing Road just before 7 a.m. A marine unit pulled her body from the water and she was pronounced dead at the scene. She has not been officially identified.<\/p>\n<p>The park was blocked off by several officers during the recovery operation. <\/p>\n<p>Ald. Julia Ramirez, who represents the 12th Ward which encompasses where the woman was found, said just 48 hours earlier posts were circulating on social media about a 90-year-old woman missing from the 1900 block of West 34th Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We started seeing in multiple neighborhood chats the photo of her,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Folks were on the lookout and we&#8217;ve actually seen it pretty widely spread in the neighborhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if the missing woman is the same person who was found in the lagoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall it&#8217;s just a sad situation regardless,&#8221; Ramirez said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just hoping that the family gets the answers of what happens to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if any foul play was involved in the elderly woman&#8217;s death. Police said this remains a death investigation pending autopsy results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/search\/author\/shardaa-gray\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shardaa  Gray<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Shardaa Gray is a Multimedia Reporter for CBS 2 Chicago. She joined the team in December 2021. She was born and raised in the south suburbs. She&#8217;s happy to return home to report on her community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Body pulled from lagoon on Chicago&#8217;s Southwest Side Body pulled from lagoon on Chicago&#8217;s Southwest Side 00:23 Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":270072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,7899],"class_list":{"0":"post-270071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-water-rescues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270071","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=270071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}