25-year-old man dies after being pulled from Lake Michigan near Burnham Harbor with woman: CPD

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CHICAGO -- A man died after he was pulled from Lake Michigan on Sunday morning near Burnham Harbor.

Mister Wilson, 25, and a woman, whose age wasn't known, were pulled from the water by marine unit divers about 4:40 a.m. in the first-block of South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago police and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said.

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Wilson was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died, police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said.

The woman was not injured.

Area Three detectives are investigating.

A 22-year-old man pulled from Lake Michigan near Montrose Beach early Monday morning also died, and emergency crews continue to search for a man who went missing in Lake Michigan off the coast of Evanston over the weekend.

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